B2B Challenges

How to protect your files from AI
without consent?

In an era where artificial intelligence is integrated into many cloud services, a central question arises: can we still transfer files without fear that they will be analyzed, indexed, or used to train AI models?

July 2025 Controversy

Many services scan your files "for your security": virus detection, image recognition, text extraction, or continuous improvement of their AI algorithms.

The trap of background analysis

The hidden reality

While these technologies may seem useful, they also carry risks of reusing your content without clear consent, opacity about processing done in the background, and transfers to servers outside Europe subject to other jurisdictions.

Automatic services

For creative companies, agencies, freelancers, or local authorities, this ambiguity is unacceptable. Each transfer becomes an issue of intellectual property, liability, and consistency with CSR commitments.

Who really has access?

The platform

Says it doesn't analyze your files

The cloud host

Offers "optional" analysis services

Third-party services

Can be activated automatically

You

Are often not informed

Types of possible automatic analyses

Many popular services are based on cloud infrastructures whose terms of use sometimes allow file analysis or duplication

AI Training

Using your files to improve artificial intelligence models

Analysis examples:

  • Machine learning
  • Algorithm optimization
  • Training data

Image Recognition

Automatic detection of objects, faces and visual content for AI

Analysis examples:

  • Facial recognition
  • Object classification
  • Visual content analysis

Text Extraction

Automatic OCR and semantic analysis to feed AI

Analysis examples:

  • Document reading
  • Data extraction
  • Linguistic analysis

AI Indexing

Automatic cataloging and classification to train models

Analysis examples:

  • Automatic metadata
  • AI categorization
  • Learning database
"Transferring a file should not mean unknowingly participating in the training of a commercial artificial intelligence."

👉 At FileVert, we made a clear commitment

The proof? It's now written in black and white:

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100% French Hosting

Exclusively in France, powered 100% by renewable energy, in accordance with RGESN

No artificial intelligence

No metadata processing or content reading, no automated profiling

Automatic deletion after 48h

No information collected or exploited, the sending remains strictly temporary

No third-party cookies

No advertising, no tracking, data encryption in transit

Full GDPR compliance

A basic antivirus scan is applied only to ensure recipient security

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AI-free architecture

The architecture was designed to do little, but well. No machine learning, no algorithmic optimization.

#onlyyours

Your creations, your clients, your data… only yours.

We wish this transparency would become a standard

Comparison of market approaches vs FileVert commitment

Classic approach

"We don't open your files" (but others can)

Cloud infrastructure with activatable analysis services

Lack of transparency about third-party services

Long-term storage = prolonged exposure

No contractual commitment on analysis

FileVert approach

French hosting without analysis services

Transparent and controlled infrastructure

No third-party service accesses your files

Automatic deletion = minimal exposure

Contractual commitment #onlyyours

Concrete solutions

Related FileVert Solutions

Concrete features for protecting your files

Immediate Deletion

Scheduled deletion of your files after expiration, ensuring no data remains stored.

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Frequently asked questions

Find answers to your questions about unauthorized automatic analysis

Revealing signs of unconsented analysis: ToS vague mentions \"service improvement\", \"experience optimization\", automatic features (content suggestions, object/text recognition, smart categorization), AWS/Azure/Google Cloud hosts (AI services activatable by default), lack of technical infrastructure transparency, no explicit contractual commitment against analysis. FileVert = contractual commitment #onlyyours, publicly documented AI-free architecture, no automatic content processing, only basic antivirus scan for recipient security.
High-value files for AI: images/photos (facial recognition, objects, scenes for visual datasets), text/PDF documents (data extraction, NLP training, semantic analysis), videos (content recognition, auto-subtitling, scene classification), PowerPoint presentations/designs (layout analysis, concept extraction), source code (copilot AI improvement, pattern detection). Exposed sectors: creatives (agencies, photographers, designers), R&D (prototypes, patents), legal (confidential contracts), health (medical imaging). FileVert = zero analysis regardless of file type.
FileVert formal zero AI commitment: no machine learning applied to transferred files, no OCR (text recognition), no image/video recognition, no semantic content analysis, no EXIF/property metadata extraction, no automatic categorization, no smart suggestions based on contents. Only processing: basic ClamAV antivirus scan (known signature malware detection, no learning) for recipient security only. Deliberately simple architecture without AI modules unlike competitors systematically integrating \"smart\" analysis.
Documented reality of GAFAM AI analysis: Google Photos automatic facial/object recognition (visual model training), Microsoft OneDrive smart suggestions based on file content, Amazon Photos automatic scene categorization, Dropbox smart content search (requires AI indexing), all offer vision/NLP APIs requiring massive datasets. Typical ToS: \"improve our services\", \"personalize experience\" = legal formulations authorizing reuse. FileVert radical alternative: French company, no AI ambition, pure file transfer business model without data monetization.
Analysis of marketing promises vs technical reality: \"we don't look\" ≠ \"no automated system analyzes\", distinction between service (human team) vs infrastructure (underlying automatic algorithms), third-party cloud hosting (AWS, Azure) = AI services activatable even if main platform doesn't analyze, ToS often contradictions between security vs privacy vs service improvement sections. Critical verifications: transparent declared infrastructure? Explicit contractual commitment? Sovereign host without AI? Clear business model without data monetization? FileVert = yes to all 4 criteria.
Real legal risks of unconsented analysis: intellectual property violation (designs, creations used without authorization), client confidentiality breach (NDAs violated if contents analyzed/reused), GDPR non-compliance if personal data (fines up to 4% revenue, DPO/supervisory authority sanctions), involuntary industrial espionage (manufacturing secrets, exposed strategies), professional liability (lawyers, doctors, consultants = absolute duty of confidentiality). Emerging case law 2024-2025: several lawsuits ongoing against cloud platforms having used client content for commercial AI training. FileVert clear contractual protection.
Explicit FileVert contractual guarantees: formal ToS clause \"no content analysis by artificial intelligence\", automatic 48h deletion commitment (temporal exposure minimization), documented technical architecture without AI/ML modules, Scaleway/OVH France hosting (no GAFAM cloud with integrated AI services), strict GDPR compliance with French DPO (complete auditability), Creative Commons license for technical documentation (verifiable transparency). Competitor difference: vague commitments, opaque jurisdictions, non-transparent AWS/Azure infrastructures. #onlyyours = political manifesto as much as technical.
Optimal FileVert original creations protection: professional photographers (portfolios, high-resolution client shoots), graphic designers (mockups, visual identities, advertising creations), illustrators/digital artists (original works, client commissions), videographers (edits, rushes, ongoing projects), architects (plans, 3D renders, confidential projects). Competitor risks: Google Photos trained AI models on millions of user photos, Adobe \"service improvements\" include creation analysis, Canva analyzes user designs for suggestion optimization. FileVert = total intellectual property respect, no reuse, contractual commitment for artists/creatives.

How to protect your files from unconsented AI?

FileVert contractually guarantees #onlyyours

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