Consumer Rights

Are AI Health Bots Sharing Your Data? How to Check Their Privacy Policies More people are turning to AI health bots for quick symptom checks, medication reminders, or mental health support. But a recent report from Healthcare Brew highlights a growing concern among experts: the privacy policies of these tools are often obscure, and federal rules barely cover them. If you’ve used or are considering using an AI health bot, it’s worth understanding what happens to the data you type in. ...

Most Americans Worry About Sharing Data with AI: Here’s What to Know Artificial intelligence tools are becoming hard to avoid. They power search engines, help draft emails, generate images, and even suggest what to watch next. But as these systems become more embedded in daily life, a clear unease has taken hold: most Americans are skeptical about handing over their personal data to AI. ...

Your Doctor Might Be Using AI: Here’s How to Protect Your Health Data Artificial intelligence is quietly becoming part of everyday medical visits. Some doctors now use AI scribes to listen to conversations and automatically write notes. Others rely on AI tools to help analyze images, suggest possible diagnoses, or flag lab results. If you’ve been to a clinic recently, it’s possible your health data was handled by an algorithm without you knowing. ...

EU Says Apple Can’t Sidestep New Digital Rules: Here’s How Your Siri AI Will Change If you’ve been waiting for Apple’s next-generation Siri AI—the one that promises deeper language understanding and on‑device personalization—you may have to wait a bit longer if you live in the European Union. EU regulators recently denied Apple’s request for an exemption from the bloc’s new digital rules, leaving the launch of Siri’s advanced features in limbo. Here’s what the dispute means for your privacy, the features you might lose or gain, and when you can expect changes. ...

Apple’s Siri AI Delay in Europe: What It Means for Your Privacy On June 9, 2026, EU regulators rejected Apple’s request for an exemption from the Digital Markets Act (DMA) that would have allowed the company to keep Siri’s future AI features closed to third-party services. The decision has direct consequences for Apple users in Europe—and raises broader questions about how voice data is handled when AI assistants become more powerful. ...

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. ...

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. ...

How Your Data Gets Used to Train AI—and Why It’s Becoming a Legal Battleground For years, privacy compliance largely meant making sure companies told you what data they collected and gave you a way to opt out of selling it. That world is changing. A growing number of legal actions and new state laws are shifting the focus from simple notice-and-choice to something broader: how companies acquire and use data to train artificial intelligence models. If you’ve used a chatbot, voice assistant, or image generator, your data may be part of that training—often without your explicit permission. Here’s what’s happening and what you can do about it. ...

When Your Financial Advisor Uses AI: What It Means for Your Privacy Financial advisors have always used data to understand their clients. But now, many are turning to artificial intelligence to sharpen their marketing and client management. A recent report in The Globe and Mail highlighted how AI can give advisors a marketing edge—but warned that privacy rules need close attention. For clients, this raises an important question: what happens to your personal financial information when your advisor uses AI tools? ...

New AI privacy laws in Illinois could change how chatbots handle your data If you use ChatGPT, Google Bard, or any AI chatbot, you might have wondered who sees your conversations and how that data is used. Illinois is now moving to answer that question with a package of AI safety and privacy bills that would require companies to be more transparent and to protect users—especially minors. Even if you don’t live in Illinois, these proposals are worth watching. State-level actions often set the stage for broader regulation, and the Illinois bills are among the most comprehensive yet. ...