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Meta Is Tracking Your Keystrokes to Train AI: Here’s How to Opt Out If you’ve typed anything into Facebook or Instagram recently—a comment, a search, a message—Meta may have logged every keystroke. The company has admitted to using that data to train its artificial intelligence models. While Meta recently scaled back the most aggressive version of this tracking after internal pushback, the underlying capability remains active for many users. ...

Brave Gets Containers: A Smarter Way to Separate Work, Play, and Privacy If you manage multiple online accounts – a work email, a personal one, a few social media profiles – you already know how messy the single browser window can get. Logging in and out, seeing recommendations tied to the wrong account, or accidentally posting from the wrong profile are all too common. Brave’s new container feature aims to fix that, while also strengthening privacy by isolating cookies and tracking data between sessions. ...

Meta Is Tracking Your Keystrokes to Train AI: What That Means for Your Privacy Recent reports have confirmed what many privacy advocates feared: Meta has been collecting keystroke and mouse click data from users of its platforms to train its artificial intelligence models. While the company frames this as a necessary step for improving AI, the practice has sparked internal employee concerns and brought renewed attention to how much of our digital behavior is being monitored without clear consent. ...

Brave’s New Containers Feature: What It Is and How to Use It for Better Privacy Browser containers aren’t new—Firefox has offered them for years—but Brave’s recent implementation brings the concept to a Chromium-based browser without requiring an add-on. As some analysts have noted, Brave’s browser containers raise the bar for privacy and workflow flexibility by making session isolation simple and built-in. This article explains how the feature works, why it matters, and how you can start using it today. ...

What Are Brave’s Browser Containers and How to Use Them for Better Privacy If you’ve ever logged into your work email in one tab and accidentally clicked a shopping ad in another, only to see your work account suddenly fill with targeted offers, you’ve felt the friction of a browser that mixes everything together. Brave’s new container feature aims to fix that by giving each part of your online life its own isolated space. ...

Meta is training AI on your keystrokes – Here’s what it means for your privacy In early July 2026, reports emerged that Meta has been using data from keystrokes, mouse clicks, and other user interactions to train its artificial intelligence models. The news, first covered by TechTarget and later by Global Banking & Finance Review, quickly raised questions about how much of our everyday behavior on Facebook, Instagram, and other Meta platforms is being collected and fed into AI systems—and whether users have any real say in the matter. ...

AI scribes in your doctor’s office: what the new privacy warning means for patients If you’ve been to the doctor recently, there’s a growing chance an AI was listening. So‑called AI scribes – voice‑recording software that automatically turns conversations into clinical notes – are being adopted by clinics and hospitals around the world. The pitch is straightforward: doctors spend less time typing and more time with you. But a recent government warning in Australia has highlighted a number of privacy risks that patients should be aware of before their next appointment. ...

Meta Is Training AI on Your Keystrokes: What It Means and How to Opt Out If you use Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp, there’s a good chance Meta has been logging more than just your likes and shares. Recent reports confirm that the company has been collecting keystroke-level data—including what you type and where you click—to train its artificial intelligence models. After internal employee pushback, Meta scaled back the tool, but the practice raises real questions about how much of our everyday digital behavior is used to improve AI systems, and whether we have any say in it. ...

Brave’s Container Tabs: What They Are and How to Use Them A quiet but useful feature has landed in Brave: container tabs. If you’ve used Firefox’s Multi-Account Containers extension, the idea will sound familiar. Brave now offers a similar capability built directly into the browser, with no extra add‑on needed. The feature isolates your browsing sessions so that cookies, site data, and storage from one container cannot leak into another. This matters for both privacy and day‑to‑day workflow, especially if you juggle multiple accounts or want to limit cross‑site tracking. ...

Meta Is Training AI on Your Keystrokes: What It Means for Your Privacy A recent TechTarget report revealed that Meta has been using user keystroke data from its platforms—Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp—to train its AI models. The company confirmed this practice, which involves analyzing how and when users type. Separately, an internal tool that tracked mouse clicks was scaled back after employees raised concerns about transparency and consent. None of this is illegal on its face, but it raises practical questions for anyone who uses these services. ...