Tautoru
Safe navigation in a digital world
Find your bearings in the age of AI.
Tautoru provides independent, sourced guidance to help legal professionals, public officials, and members of the public safely navigate the intersection of technology and decision-making.
Whakatere — Using AI safely
whakatere — to navigate, to set a course
Can you safely use Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini with sensitive information? This interactive guide cuts through the noise to show you what is safe to input, what is risky, and how to deal with privacy.
Enter WhakatereWhakamārama — Understanding AI
whakamārama — to explain, to make clear, to shed light
You cannot take a position on AI unless you understand it. This module comprises a short essay on why understanding comes first, the research behind it, and a four-part guide to how these tools work, where they fail, and where they help.
Start hereWhakapakari — Building your AI capability
whakapakari — to strengthen, to build up, to develop
Where do you actually stand with these tools? A short, honest self-assessment — from getting your bearings to genuine fluency — that shows you where to put your attention next. Nothing is stored.
Find where you standWhakatūpato — Alerts
whakatūpato — to warn, to alert, to take care
AI moves fast — a new model, a change to a provider's terms, a fresh court ruling. Whakatūpato flags the developments that change what is safe to put in, as they happen: dated, sourced, and linked to the tool affected.
See all alertsLatest alertClaude
The 30-day retention, explained: what it is for, and our view
Fable 5 is back, and with it the question we have been asked most since 9 June: how worried should you be about the 30-day retention? Start with what the retention is for. Anthropic retains prompts and outputs "for trust and safety purposes", and the purpose is specific: some misuse only shows up across a run of requests, not in any single prompt, so when something trips a safety check, the surrounding 30 days shows whether it is part of a pattern that breaches the usage policy. Nobody reads the retained material by default. Human review happens only on a safety flag, is confined to approved reviewers, and is logged. The data is not used to train models. Material a flag catches can be held for up to two years.
Read this alertPolicy alerts & updates
AI tools change their data and privacy terms without warning. We monitor the shifts so you don't have to. Subscribe to receive immediate alerts when a change impacts your security or compliance.