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What security and privacy considerations should be addressed when using AI services that process sensitive text, images, or voice data?
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When using services like Rekognition, Comprehend, or Lex to process sensitive data such as customer faces, personal conversations, or confidential documents, it is important to encrypt data both in transit and at rest, apply strict IAM policies limiting which roles can invoke these services, consider whether data should be processed within a VPC using interface endpoints to avoid traversing the public internet, and review each service's data retention and usage policies to ensure compliance with relevant privacy regulations.
aws comprehend detect-pii-entities --text 'Customer John Smith called about invoice 12345' --language-code enReal-world example A healthcare provider uses Comprehend Medical alongside strict IAM policies and VPC endpoints to detect and redact personally identifiable information from patient notes before that data is shared with any downstream analytics system.