AIUC-1 A004 — Protect IP & trade secrets (A. Data & Privacy)
Stop the agent from disclosing the organisation's own proprietary information or trade secrets in its outputs.
Where this comes from
Provision: A004 — Protect IP & trade secrets (A. Data & Privacy)
Instrument: AIUC-1 — AI agent certification standard (Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company)
Citation: AIUC-1, requirement A004 (A. Data & Privacy) — mandatory, preventative control, assessed every 12 months. Not law: AIUC-1 is a voluntary certification standard, not a binding instrument.
Text version: AIUC-1 as published at aiuc-1.com (quarterly releases; no public version number)
Checked against the source: 4 September 2026
Who it applies to
It applies when all of these are true:
- Service deploys AI systems in a professional capacity
What engineering work it implies
Sample acceptance criteria Landfall generates for this obligation:
- Implementation or documented process meets the reviewed acceptance criteria; identify the tested version and deployment status separately
- Configure defaults from the assessed source and purpose; do not enable data collection or processing merely because this task exists
- Validate behavior for the assessed actors and use cases, including applicable guest or administrator paths
- UI clearly communicates what the feature does to users
- API returns appropriate error codes when feature blocks an action
Questions people ask
- Does AIUC-1 A004 — Protect IP & trade secrets (A. Data & Privacy) apply to my service?
- It applies when Service deploys AI systems in a professional capacity.
- From when does this apply?
- AIUC-1 A004 — Protect IP & trade secrets (A. Data & Privacy) applies from 1 July 2025. Its current status is: in force.
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