12 Articles about AI & Data Privacy

The glaring security risks with AI browser agents - TechCrunch 

OpenAI to launch ChatGPT for teens with parental controls as company faces scrutiny over safety – CNBC

How to use ChatGPT without giving up your data – Washington Post

The Impending Wave of Shadow AI - UniteAI

Age Verification Is Sweeping Gaming. Is It Ready for the Age of AI Fakes? – Wired

How churches use data and AI as engines of surveillance – MIT Tech Review

AI systems ‘ignorant’ of sensitive data can be safer, but still smart - Washington Post

Nearly 100,000 ChatGPT Conversations Were Searchable on Google – 404 Media

A data scientist on how AI is being used to profile you – NPR

AI therapy is a surveillance machine in a police state – The Verge

Are LLM firewalls the future of AI security? – Computer Weekly

AI in education's potential privacy nightmare - Axios 

The DuckDuckGo AI Option

When you use ChatGPT, Claude or Llama technology within DuckDuckGo’s chatbot, the company acts as a middleman that limits what the AI companies know about you and what you’re chatting about. DuckDuckGo says that when you use its chatbot, your conversations aren’t used to train AI for DuckDuckGo or any of its partner AI companies. Your chats may be saved only anonymously for, at most, 30 days, with limited exceptions. And the AI companies don’t have access to personal information such as your device’s unique digital ID number, which could be used to assemble dossiers on your habits. -Washington Post

14 Articles about AI & Data Privacy

Agentic AI has “profound” issues with security and privacy, Signal President says – Tech Radar

Why AI needs a kill switch – just in case – Information Age

AI Surveillance Is Being Installed In Schools To Keep Kids Safe. But That’s Not All It’s Doing - MIC

Schools use AI to monitor kids, hoping to prevent violence. Our investigation found security risks – OC register 

How to embrace AI while protecting personal information and data – NBC News  

Bloomberg The DeepSeek AI Revolution Has a Security Problem – Bloomberg  

AI, huge hacks leave consumers facing a perfect storm of privacy perils – Washington Post  

AI Expert: More Must Be Done to Protect Data Privacy in the AI Age – Inside AI News

AI Mistakes Are Very Different Than Human Mistakes – Spectrum

How generative AI security helps mitigate risks in enterprise environments – Silicon Angle

Malware's AI time bomb - Axios 

Unpacking the Role of AI in Physical Security – EdTech Magazine

A.I. chatbots becoming popular but worry privacy advocates – NBC News

Search Thought LeadersAI’s Data Dilemma: Privacy, Regulation, and the Future of Ethical AI – Unite AI  

14 Articles about AI & Data Privacy

Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World – 404 Media 

What AI knows about you – Axios

AI firms need to address security, open-source concerns: G42 exec – Semafor  

Anyone Can Turn You Into an AI Chatbot. There’s Little You Can Do to Stop Them – Wired  

His daughter was murdered. Then he discovered that her name and image had been used to create an AI chatbot.-Washington Post   

How to Say No to Our A.I. Overlords – New York Times 

Harvard students hack Meta's new AI-powered smart glass to instantaneously reveal people's personal information just by looking at their face – Ars Technica  

Study: AI could lead to inconsistent outcomes in home surveillance – MIT  

LinkedIn plans to use your data to train its AI. Here’s how to stop it – Fast Company 

A booming industry of AI age scanners, aimed at children’s faces - Washington Post 

Inside the company that gathers ‘human data’ for every major AI company – Semafor  

A booming industry of AI age scanners, aimed at children’s faces - Washington Post   

Can Security Experts Leverage Generative AI Without Prompt Engineering Skills? – Tech Republic  

This AI Tool Helped Convict People of Murder. Then Someone took a Closer Look. – WIRED

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When your appliances work as police informants

Suppose police suspect a man of organizing a political protest that turned violent, muses the ACLU’s Nathan Wessler, who argued the Carpenter case (on digital privacy) for the ACLU before the Supreme Court. The suspect’s smart meter and thermostat confirm that a handful of people showed up at his home and stayed there the two nights before the demonstration; the suspect’s smart refrigerator ordered a bunch of soda and snack food on those days, which was all consumed; after someone asked Alexa to play some music in his living room, a voice in the background said, “Tomorrow, we’re going to really show them”; and that night, the suspect’s smart mattress recorded him sleeping fitfully and his heart beating faster than normal. The police arrest the man on conspiracy and other charges. He eventually proves he’s innocent – some old friends visited from out of town, and planned a day of sightseeing—but not before a legal nightmare turns his life upside down.

 "There’s not a person among us who doesn’t have private aspects of their life that could create difficulty for them if they were exposed,” Wessler says. “And misinterpreted.”

David Henry writing in 1843