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Self-Hosting Open-Weight LLMs in the EU: A GDPR Checklist
Community description: Run open-weight LLMs on EU servers and remove the hardest GDPR questions. A working Docker + Ollama setup plus a 10-point compliance checklist for developers.
Dev.to | Oct 18, 2026 | Muhammad Saud
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Every prompt your application sends to a cloud AI provider is a data transfer. Retention and erasure — including your own logs Prompts, chat histories, and logs containing personal data are themselves personal data. Hallucinated personal data about real people is still personal data you processed.
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