Guides for Irish firms, practices and local authorities on using AI under the GDPR and the EU AI Act, with client names and PPS numbers kept on your computer.
Delete ChatGPT history for good: one chat or all, what archive, memory and shared links keep, the 30 days after, and your right to erasure in Ireland.
How to remove track changes from a Word document, and its comments, before it goes to the other side or to AI: accept, delete, then run the Inspector.
Yes, and deleting the chat may not delete the photo. An Irish guide to what ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Copilot keep of an image, and what the GDPR asks.
Anonymise your driving licence for a car club, employer or insurer: cover the driver number and address, add a watermark. Stays in your browser.
Redact the passport number, the MRZ lines and your signature, then watermark the copy with who it is for. In your browser, ready to send or use with AI.
You can upload a CSV to ChatGPT, but every column goes with it. Need to anonymise it first? CSV, TSV, text, .odt and RTF files, cleared for Irish offices.
Need to anonymise a PowerPoint for AI? Speaker notes, hidden slides, comments, the slide master and chart data, cleared step by step, for Irish offices.
Need to anonymise a spreadsheet? Hidden sheets, rows, notes and pivot caches have to be really gone before an AI tool opens the Excel file, for Irish offices.
Need to anonymise a PDF for AI? Drop it in and get names, PPS numbers and Eircodes covered, ready for Copilot or ChatGPT, as a PDF, Word or TXT file.
Need to anonymise a Word document for AI? Drop in the .docx and get client names, PPS numbers and addresses covered, then download it as Word, PDF or TXT.
Remove metadata from PDF and Word files before an AI tool reads them: author, company, template, file paths, photo GPS and XMP, and how to clear each.
What personal data should be redacted? Paste your text and names, PPS numbers, Eircodes and IBANs come back covered, ready for AI or to download.
Special category data under GDPR turns up in Irish payslips, sick certs and WRC files. What Article 9 changes when that text goes into an AI tool.
An engagement letter AI clause for Irish solicitors and accountants: what the Law Society and your Institute expect, and wording ready to copy into the letter.
GDPR patient data in an Irish practice: what can go into ChatGPT for a referral letter, what cannot, and the IHI and PPSN rules that sit on top.
Is pseudonymised data personal data? Yes, if you hold the key. For the AI provider, the Court of Justice said in 2025 that it depends. The Irish view.
Practice Direction HC 142 applies from 1 September 2026. What the AI declaration on an affidavit covers, and what should never reach the chatbot first.
Yes, and Irish law also says who may use it at all. What else comes out of a file before an AI sees it, and why the DPC says that is not anonymising.
What council staff already use AI for, what resident data must not leave the building, and what the Act, the DPC and the NCSC ask of the 31 local authorities.
Ireland is in the EU, so the Act applies here in full. What a deployer owes today, the dates after the July 2026 omnibus, and which Irish body enforces what.
None on its own. What decides it in Ireland is the contract, the training, where the data goes and what you put in. Four assistants, criterion by criterion.
Yes, and turning training off does not undo it. What OpenAI stores, for how long, who reads it, and why the Irish DPC is the regulator that decides.
On a personal plan it can if you allow it, and then keeps chats for up to five years. On a business plan it may not. The documents, and the Irish regulator.
Google Ireland Limited runs Gemini here, human reviewers read a subset, and reviewed chats last three years. What the settings change, and what they do not.
Copilot is four products, and the answer changes with each. What Microsoft trains on, what leaves the EU Data Boundary, and what the DPC told LinkedIn.
Nine Irish cyber documents, opened and read: what cover here actually pays for, what the Consumer Insurance Contracts Act 2019 changes, and how to compare.