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AI data, training & privacy · Specialist

Data retention

ELI5

The period and conditions under which collected data, prompts, files or model outputs are stored.

Used in conversation

“The team needs to address the data retention before using the tool or material.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Data retention” in accessibility, localisation, ethics & ai conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains access, language adaptation, care, provenance and emerging synthetic-media responsibilities.

Caution

Meaning and consequences may change by contract, collective agreement, territory or law. This entry is orientation, not legal advice.

Sources & evidence · 8

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.