PhD student's Runway reimbursement blocked by university InfoSec review demanding HECVAT and SOC 2
TuhinChakr · x · 2026-10-30
A professor complains that his PhD student's Runway reimbursement is stuck: university InfoSec demands a HECVAT v4 Lite or SOC 2 Type II report from the vendor, plus confirmation of how prompts and generated videos are stored, how long they're retained, whether they're used for AI training, and whether they're shared with third-party AI providers such as ByteDance. A vivid look at the compliance hurdles of bringing cloud AI tools into academia.
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