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Presentation from OpenAI to the EDPS on advances in Privacy Enhanced Technologies (PETs) included in their product portfolio

18
May
2026

Presentation from OpenAI to the EDPS on advances in Privacy Enhanced Technologies (PETs) included in their product portfolio

Presentation from OpenAI to the EDPS on advances in Privacy Enhanced Technologies (PETs) included in their product portfolio.

All EDPS staff is invited to the meeting including Heads of Units and Senior Management.

Agenda

Workshop Part 1 

OpenAI Privacy Program overview (pre-training to deployment), high-level to set the foundation 

Workshop Part 2

Technical deep dive into the Privacy Filter

Transparency Register number: 672219746759-76

Minutes

The EDPS held a fourth in a series of workshops with Big Tech companies. The meeting with OpenAI gave an overview of how the use of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) are integrated in the company’s products. OpenAI gave an overview of their Privacy Program, especially related to the use of ChatGPT. It also giving a technical deep dive into the Privacy Filter, a specialized machine learning model released by OpenAI designed to automatically detect and redact personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive data within unstructured texts.