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How to Protect Your Privacy in the AI Era: Tips from Proton’s CEO In a recent interview with Spiceworks, Proton CEO Andy Yen made a straightforward claim: protecting your privacy in the age of artificial intelligence is still possible. But he also admitted that one specific AI risk keeps him up at night. That risk, he explained, is not the fear that AI companies will sell your data, but something more insidious: the ability of AI to generate convincing deepfakes using personal information people already share freely online. ...

How to Protect Your Privacy in the Age of AI: Advice from Proton’s CEO Intro Using AI assistants and chatbots has become routine for millions of people. The convenience is real: you get quick answers, help drafting emails, summaries of long documents, and creative inspiration. But each query you send to a cloud-based AI service is data that leaves your device. Where it goes, who can see it, and how long it stays stored are questions most users don’t think about — until something goes wrong. ...

Your Data Might Be Training AI Without Your Knowledge – Here’s What to Do Every time you use a generative AI tool like ChatGPT, you might be sharing more than you think. These models are trained on enormous datasets scraped from the internet, and sometimes that data includes personal information you never explicitly consented to share. Now, regulators in several states and countries are starting to ask where that data came from—and whether companies have a legal right to use it. ...

Yes, You Can Use AI Without Sacrificing Privacy: Here’s How In a recent interview with Spiceworks, Proton’s CEO made a claim that might surprise anyone who has read the fine print of popular AI chatbots: privacy in the AI era is possible. But he also admitted there’s one thing that keeps him up at night—and it’s not technical limitations. It’s the quiet resignation of users who assume they have no choice but to trade their data for convenience. ...

Why the Source of AI Training Data Is a Growing Privacy Risk for You If you have used a generative AI tool like ChatGPT or a popular image generator, you may have wondered where the software got its knowledge. Increasingly, that question is not just technical curiosity — it is becoming a central legal and privacy issue. ...

Your Data Is Feeding AI Models — Here’s What the New Legal Risks Mean for You If you’ve used a chatbot, an image generator, or a smart writing assistant in the past year, your words or images may have already helped train the next version of that tool. That data often comes from public web pages, social media posts, and even private messages that were scraped without a clear opt-out. Until recently, the legal question was mostly about privacy compliance—whether a company had a proper privacy policy. Now the focus is shifting to something more fundamental: where the training data came from in the first place. ...

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. ...