Yandex Translate

Facts

Domain

translate.yandex.com

Category

Writing and marketing

Risk level

High

Home country

Rússia

Does the free version train on your data?

The vendor does not say whether your data is used to train models. (source)

Home country is the headquarters of the company behind the tool. It is not a claim about where data is processed or stored — data residency depends on the plan you hold and must be confirmed with the vendor.

Why Yandex Translate is classified as high risk

High-risk tool. It's recommended to set a usage policy and communicate it to employees before approving it.

What to do about it

Requires a written policy before approval. Define what kind of data may be entered, verify whether training on your data can be disabled in the plan you hold, and record the tool in your AI inventory. Approving without a policy is the single most common source of audit findings.

Here is the distinction almost every company gets wrong in its first audit: no framework — LGPD, ISO 42001, the EU AI Act — requires you to block AI tools. All of them require you to know what is in use and to have made a conscious, recorded decision about each item. A high-risk tool approved under a written policy is compliance; a low-risk tool in use with nobody aware of it is an audit finding.