How to adopt ChatGPT in an Australian business in a way that respects the Privacy Act and the Australian Privacy Principles.
dgm is an independent osFoundry integration partner — not affiliated with osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC), and dgm has no completed client integrations yet.
ChatGPT is the most common entry point to business AI, but using it safely in an Australian business means handling personal information under the Privacy Act and controlling what staff put into it.
The main risk
The biggest risk is staff pasting personal information or confidential data into a consumer AI tool without controls. Under the Privacy Act you remain accountable for personal information, including what is entered into an AI service.
Using it safely
Use a business tier with appropriate data controls, set a use policy on what data may be entered, and prefer governed access over individual consumer accounts. Be transparent about overseas processing (APP 8).
A more controllable alternative
For sensitive workloads, a model-agnostic platform lets you run the same kind of assistant on the model you choose with residency control. osFoundry is a model-agnostic, bring-your-own-key (BYOK) AI orchestration platform — usage-based pricing with no per-seat fees, local-first and self-hostable, with per-region data pinning (US, EU or Japan) or deployment into your own cloud. osFoundry’s managed cloud pins data to the US, EU or Japan — it does not currently offer an Australian managed region. For data that must stay in Australia, the honest path is self-hosting osFoundry (BYO Cloud) inside an Australian cloud region such as AWS (Sydney or Melbourne), Microsoft Azure (Australia East, Australia Southeast or Australia Central in Canberra) or Google Cloud (Sydney or Melbourne), or running models locally on-device.
Where dgm fits
dgm is an independent integration partner that helps Australian businesses adopt osFoundry — scoping a first use case, handling the build, and connecting AI to the systems you already run. dgm is independent of osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC) and has no completed client integrations yet, so everything described here is a service offered, not a past result. If you want to scope a practical first project, dgm can help you map it out.