Hey everyone 👋
Question for those of you building AI chatbots for clients (or your own product):
When you deploy a chatbot on a website, are you actually GDPR-compliant — or are you hoping nobody notices?
I’m based in Austria, building AI automation solutions for European SMBs, and the #1 question I get asked isn’t “how smart is your bot?” — it’s:
“Where is the data going? Who processes it? Do you have an AVV?”
Most US-built chatbots fail this conversation immediately because:
• No signed Data Processing Agreement (Art. 28 GDPR requirement)
• Subprocessors (OpenAI, Pinecone, Vercel) not disclosed
• No Datenschutzerklärung (privacy notice) in the local language
• EU AI Act transparency requirements ignored (mandatory from August 2026)
Curious — how are you handling this for European clients? Or are you avoiding the European market entirely because it feels too complicated?
Happy to share what I’ve built (a 10-point GDPR transparency package) if anyone wants to dig in 🙌