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Glossary Control and oversight

Source access permissions

Retrieval must respect the access permissions of the requesting person.

As of: September 2026 · Glossary with 46 terms

What is Source access permissions?

Source access permissions determine who may read a document or dataset. In a RAG application they must also apply during search, retrieval and transfer to the model. A broadly authorised service account does not by itself protect individual users.

Test both allowed and denied access with different roles. Include revoked permissions, caches and shared indexes.

Sources for context: OWASP LLM08:2025

ACLAccess controlRAG

More terms from the subject area Control and oversight.

Degree of autonomy How much a system decides and executes without human involvement. Human in, on and out of the loop Describes where people can decide or intervene in a workflow. Guardrails Technical rules that bound the input, output and actions of a system.

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