AI Data Classification for Prompts and Context
AI data classification used to focus mainly on documents, databases, and storage locations. That boundary is no longer enough. An AI system can receive information through direct prompts, uploaded files, screenshots, meeting transcripts, browser extensions, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), assistant memory, plugins, APIs, and connected enterprise systems. One request can mix several sensitivity levels. A public product description may sit beside an internal launch date, a confidential pricing assumption, and a customer name. Classifying only the final document misses the risk created when those fragments enter an AI tool together. ...