How to Avoid Tampered Productivity Apps That Hide Malware If you’ve ever searched for a free download of Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, or a popular note-taking app, you know how many unofficial sites appear. A newly reported malware campaign called TamperedChef shows why those downloads are riskier than ever. ...
Your Data Might Be Training AI Without Your Knowledge – How New Laws Are Changing That You type a question into a chatbot, upload a photo to an image generator, or ask a smart speaker for the weather. It feels like a one‑way conversation. But behind the scenes, your input may be collected and used to train the next version of that AI model. Until recently, companies had few obligations to tell you they were doing this, or to ask permission. ...
Why the Source of AI Training Data Is Becoming a Major Legal Risk (and What You Can Do) For the past few years, “privacy compliance” meant managing how companies collect, store, and share your personal information. Think cookie banners, data subject access requests, and opt-out forms. But a new layer is forming: AI governance. And the most urgent issue within it is the provenance of training data—where the material that teaches AI models actually comes from. ...
How to Keep Your Privacy in the AI Era, According to Proton’s CEO The CEO of Proton – the company behind encrypted email and VPN services – recently said that privacy in the age of AI is still possible, but he keeps one thing up at night. That one thing isn’t a rogue algorithm or a leaky server. It’s much simpler: the gradual erosion of consent. ...
Can You Keep Your Privacy in the AI Era? Proton’s CEO Shares His Biggest Concern Introduction Using AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot often feels like a trade‑off: you get fast answers and smart suggestions, but you hand over your questions, documents, and sometimes personal data. For privacy‑conscious users, that exchange feels increasingly uneasy. As more people rely on generative AI for work, research, and everyday tasks, the question isn’t just whether AI can be useful—it’s whether you can use it without losing control over your information. ...
A Third of Americans Have Been Scammed While Shopping Online. Here’s How to Stay Safe If you’ve ever clicked “Buy Now” on a deal that seemed too good to be true—and later realized you paid for nothing—you are far from alone. A 2025 Pew Research Center survey found that about one in three U.S. adults have experienced an online shopping scam. That’s roughly 33 percent of the country. The number is a stark reminder that digital convenience comes with a real, and growing, risk. ...
1 in 3 Americans Has Been Scammed While Shopping Online: How to Avoid Being Next Nearly a third of U.S. adults say an online shopping scam has happened to them, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. With holiday shopping already underway and major sales events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday approaching, the timing of this data is a good reminder to slow down before you click “buy.” ...
Your Data Is Training AI: Why the Source of Training Data Is Becoming a Legal Risk If you’ve used ChatGPT, an image generator, or any other AI tool in the past year, there’s a good chance your conversations and prompts have been collected to train future models. That practice is now under serious legal scrutiny—and it matters for your privacy. ...
Why AI Companies Are Getting Sued Over Your Data – And What You Can Do Every time you post a photo, write a review, or comment on a public forum, you are generating content that could end up inside an artificial intelligence model. That is not speculation—many AI systems are trained on vast amounts of text and images scraped from the open web, often without the knowledge or explicit consent of the people who created that content. ...
One in Three Americans Has Been Scammed While Shopping Online: How to Protect Yourself If you’ve ever bought something online that never arrived, or paid for a product that turned out to be counterfeit, you’re not alone. A new survey from the Pew Research Center found that about a third of U.S. adults say they’ve experienced an online shopping scam. That number is high enough to suggest that most of us either know someone who’s been burned or have been burned ourselves. ...