Provision record
Apple Intelligence · Apple Private Cloud Compute Security Guide · View original document ↗

Stateless computation on personal user data

High confidence Common · 273 of 343 platforms

Key Facts · in the document’s own words

What must PCC use personal user data exclusively for?
“PCC must use the personal user data that it receives exclusively for the purpose of fulfilling the user's request. User data must not be accessible after the response is returned to the user.”
Version CA-V-005803, captured Aug. 14, 2026 · live source ↗
Our reading, not the document’s words
Apple Intelligence requires that PCC must use personal user data exclusively for the purpose of fulfilling the user's request.
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ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

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An exclusivity requirement on data use prohibits any secondary use of personal data, including analytics, training, or profiling, grounding a strong purpose-limitation principle in the system's design mandate.

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Interpretive note: The excerpt contains two independent requirements: exclusive purpose limitation during processing, and non-accessibility of user data after the response is returned. The primary claim is purpose limitation; post-response non-accessibility is recorded in omitted_material.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

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Apple Intelligence's PCC is required to use your personal data only to fulfill your request and for no other purpose.

How other platforms handle this

Canva

We may use information about you, your activity, content, media uploads and related data in your account to prevent, detect, investigate and address safety, security, fraud and abuse risks, and to develop our algorithms and models to identify violations...

Cloudflare

To the extent the Network Data includes any Personal Data...Cloudflare will handle such Personal Data in compliance with applicable data protection laws.

Uber

We use data for analysis, research and product development, including training machine learning models. This helps us make our services more convenient and easy to use, enhance the safety and security...

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PCC must use the personal user data that it receives exclusively for the purpose of fulfilling the user's request. User data must not be accessible after the response is returned to the user.

Excerpt from Apple Intelligence's Apple Private Cloud Compute Security Guide

Provision details

Document information
Document
Apple Private Cloud Compute Security Guide
Entity
Apple Intelligence
Tracking information
First captured by ConductAtlas
May 12, 2026
Text quoted from version
CA-V-005803, captured Aug. 14, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-064222
Document ID
CA-D-000815
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Extracted-text SHA-256 (version CA-V-005803)
3b674b4d55cd9de8cd2eedb9c22d552aa1000745971d46e85b6741be9e651f3e
Analysis generated
May 12, 2026 16:21 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Excerpt found in version CA-V-005803, captured Aug. 14, 2026 (checked Oct. 5, 2026)
Citation Record
Entity: Apple Intelligence
Document: Apple Private Cloud Compute Security Guide
Record ID: CA-P-064222
Version: CA-V-005803
Captured: 2026-08-14 01:25:25 UTC
SHA-256: 3b674b4d55cd9de8…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/apple-intelligence/apple-private-cloud-compute-security-guide/provision/CA-P-064222/stateless-computation-on-personal-user-data/
Accessed: Nov. 4, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Apple Intelligence's Stateless computation on personal user data clause do?

An exclusivity requirement on data use prohibits any secondary use of personal data, including analytics, training, or profiling, grounding a strong purpose-limitation principle in the system's design mandate.

How does this clause affect you?

Apple Intelligence's PCC is required to use your personal data only to fulfill your request and for no other purpose.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 273 platforms. See the full comparison.

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