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The Dutch Data Protection Authority received dozens of reports in 2024 and 2025, and the number keeps rising.",[22,23,25],"h2",{"id":24},"what-went-wrong-in-eindhoven","What went wrong in Eindhoven?",[10,27,28],{},"The FD describes an incident at the municipality of Eindhoven. After a sample period of just 30 days, it turned out that employees had shared CVs, youth care documents, and internal reports with free AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude.",[10,30,31],{},"How big the leak actually is, the municipality doesn't know. The data was only retained for 30 days. After that, the scope can no longer be determined.",[22,33,35],{"id":34},"why-this-directly-affects-healthcare","Why this directly affects healthcare",[10,37,38],{},"The article explicitly mentions youth care documents. Those are by definition documents containing sensitive patient information, protected by medical confidentiality.",[10,40,41],{},"But the problem is broader. In daily practice, healthcare professionals copy and paste dozens of times a day. From EHR to letter, from lab result to consult, from note to search query. It's efficient and inevitable.",[10,43,44],{},"But in that hectic flow, it can happen: you accidentally include personal data in a question to an AI tool. With free tools like ChatGPT, that information disappears into a black box. You don't know where it goes, whether it's used for training, or whether it ever comes back in answers to other users.",[22,46,48],{"id":47},"shadow-ai-the-invisible-risk","Shadow AI: the invisible risk",[10,50,51],{},"The FD introduces the term \"shadow AI\": employees who, on their own initiative, use free AI tools, out of sight of the organisation. Even when an organisation offers paid, secure alternatives, people often reach for what they know.",[10,53,54],{},"The solution isn't to ban AI. That doesn't work, and isn't desirable either. The solution is to provide secure alternatives that make the right behaviour easy.",[22,56,58],{"id":57},"how-ask-aletta-does-this-differently","How Ask Aletta does this differently",[10,60,61],{},"We have taken this risk seriously from the start. That's why we built automatic PII detection into Ask Aletta.",[10,63,64,65,69],{},"Every question is automatically checked for personal data, ",[66,67,68],"em",{},"before"," it is processed. We do this with our own detection model, running entirely on our own infrastructure in the Netherlands. No external cloud providers. No third parties.",[10,71,72],{},"If we detect something? You get a notification immediately as a user. 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We explain what this means for healthcare professionals.","md",{"date":115,"category":116,"author":117,"translations":118,"relatedPosts":120},"2025-12-30","news","aram.zegerius",{"nl":119},"20251230-datalekken-en-ai",[121],"20251111-personal-data-detection",true,null,"/en/updates/20251230-data-leaks-and-ai",{"title":5,"description":112},{"loc":124},"en/updates/20251230-data-leaks-and-ai","WM0biZbCBxVgYzA7LFRUb8zp5t79ip8Jqsj-CyvWQoE",[130],{"id":131,"title":132,"body":133,"description":180,"extension":113,"meta":181,"navigation":122,"ogImage":123,"path":186,"seo":187,"sitemap":188,"stem":189,"__hash__":190},"updates/en/updates/20251111-personal-data-detection.md","Automatic detection of personal data",{"type":7,"value":134,"toc":175},[135,138,142,145,148,152,155,162,165,169,172],[10,136,137],{},"We know how important privacy is in healthcare. That's why we've made Ask Aletta even smarter. With a new feature that helps you prevent accidentally sharing personal data. Over the past months this feature was already running behind the scenes, and from today it's visible to all users.",[22,139,141],{"id":140},"the-problem","The problem",[10,143,144],{},"As a healthcare professional, you copy and paste dozens of times a day. From EHR to letter, from report to email, from note to search query. It's efficient and inevitable.",[10,146,147],{},"But in that hectic pace, it can happen: you accidentally send personal data in a question to an AI tool, such as a name or date of birth. With tools like ChatGPT, especially with a free subscription, that information disappears into a black box. You don't know where it goes and whether it will later be used in training the next version of ChatGPT.",[22,149,151],{"id":150},"our-solution","Our solution",[10,153,154],{},"Ask Aletta does this differently:",[10,156,157,158,161],{},"We automatically check every question for personal data ",[159,160,68],"strong",{}," it is sent. 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