Consumer Privacy

AI Is Zooming Ahead Faster Than Your Privacy Can Keep Up – Here’s How to Protect Yourself A new global survey from TrustArc, a privacy compliance company, underscores what many experts have been warning about: organizations are adopting artificial intelligence tools far more quickly than they are updating their privacy safeguards. The annual report, which polls privacy professionals across industries, found that privacy capability struggles to keep pace with AI adoption, TrustArc Annual Global Survey findings suggest. For consumers, that gap creates real and immediate risks to personal data. ...

Are You Sharing Too Much with AI? New Survey Finds Privacy Safeguards Lagging Every time you ask ChatGPT to draft an email, let Copilot summarize a document, or use a photo-editing AI to remove a background, you hand over data. That data might include the text you wrote, the image you uploaded, or even metadata about your device and location. Most users assume the companies behind these tools protect that information responsibly. A new global survey from TrustArc, a well-known privacy compliance firm, suggests that assumption may be misplaced. ...

AI Tools Are Outpacing Privacy Protections: Survey Reveals the Gap and What You Can Do If you’ve used an AI chatbot, image generator, or smart assistant recently, you’ve probably noticed how quickly these tools are improving. What may be less visible is that the privacy safeguards meant to protect your data are not keeping up. A new global survey from TrustArc, released May 6, 2026, highlights exactly this mismatch and suggests that consumers are the ones exposed as a result. ...

AI Tools Are Booming, but Privacy Protections Aren’t Keeping Up — What to Watch For A new global survey from TrustArc, a privacy compliance and risk management firm, finds that most organizations are adopting artificial intelligence tools faster than they are building the privacy safeguards needed to protect user data. For everyday consumers, this gap means the personal information you feed into an AI chatbot, image generator, or productivity tool may be handled with fewer protections than you expect. ...

AI Is Outpacing Privacy Protections, New Survey Warns — What You Should Know A new global survey from the privacy compliance company TrustArc suggests that businesses are adopting artificial intelligence faster than they are building the privacy capabilities needed to handle the resulting data risks. The findings, released on May 6, 2026, highlight a growing gap that has direct implications for anyone using AI tools — from chatbots and image generators to AI-powered search and productivity apps. ...

Your Biggest Fear About AI Shopping Is Privacy: Here’s How to Protect Yourself If you’ve used an AI shopping assistant or a recommendation engine lately, you might have felt a small knot of unease when it suggested exactly the item you had only thought about. That feeling is not unusual. According to a recent report from eMarketer published on May 5, 2026, data privacy is shoppers’ biggest fear when it comes to AI shopping tools—by a wide margin. The survey, based on U.S. online shoppers, found that concerns about how personal data is collected, stored, and used outweigh any other worry about AI in e-commerce. ...

Why Shoppers Fear AI the Most—and How to Protect Your Privacy A new survey from eMarketer confirms what many in the consumer protection space have suspected: when it comes to AI-powered shopping tools, data privacy is the top worry by a wide margin. While AI promises convenience—personalized recommendations, instant price comparisons, virtual try-ons—shoppers are increasingly hesitant to hand over the personal information these features require. ...

Why Shoppers Worry About AI and Privacy — and What You Can Do About It A survey published by eMarketer this month confirms what many observers have suspected: data privacy is far and away the top concern consumers have about using AI shopping tools. Nearly half of respondents said they worry about how their personal information is collected and used when they interact with an AI assistant for shopping. This finding is not surprising, but it is a useful signal for anyone who uses — or is thinking about using — these tools. ...

Shoppers’ #1 AI Fear? Data Privacy—Here’s How to Protect Yourself Online shopping tools powered by artificial intelligence are no longer a novelty. From chatbots that answer product questions to recommendation engines that suggest what to buy next, these features are now built into most major retailers’ websites and apps. But as their use has grown, so has a specific worry among shoppers: what happens to all the personal data these tools collect? ...

What the Fireflies.AI Lawsuit Means for Your Privacy When Using AI Meeting Assistants AI meeting assistants like Otter.ai, Fireflies, and Zoom’s AI Companion have become indispensable for many professionals. They transcribe conversations, summarize action items, and even generate follow-up emails. But a recent lawsuit against Fireflies.AI has raised a question that most users haven’t considered: what happens to your voiceprint after the meeting ends? ...