New Tool Spots When Your AI Assistant Secretly Leaks Your Data You ask your AI assistant a question, and it answers helpfully. But what if, behind the scenes, it’s also sending a copy of your conversation to a third party you never agreed to? A new research tool from the Rochester Institute of Technology aims to catch exactly that kind of behavior. ...
Why AI Tools Can Be a Privacy Risk (Even Judges Are Worried) If you’ve ever typed a question into ChatGPT, Google Bard, or Microsoft Copilot, you probably assumed your words vanish into the ether. Recent court rulings suggest otherwise. In several cases this year, judges have started banning the use of AI tools during legal discovery—the phase where lawyers exchange evidence—because of growing privacy and confidentiality concerns. ...
New Tool Spots When Your AI Assistant Is Spying on You – Here’s How It Works Most people who use AI assistants – whether it’s a chatbot, a smart speaker, or a customer service agent – assume the tool is working on their behalf. But what if that assistant were quietly sharing your personal information with someone else, all while appearing helpful? ...
OpenAI’s Privacy Filter: What It Is and How to Use It to Prevent Data Leaks If you manage an enterprise that uses OpenAI’s API, you’ve likely worried about personally identifiable information (PII) slipping into model inputs. Names, email addresses, phone numbers – even inadvertently included – can become part of training data or expose your organisation to compliance risks. ...
OpenAI’s New Privacy Filter: How to Protect PII in Your Enterprise AI Usage If your organization uses OpenAI’s API or ChatGPT Enterprise, you may have missed a quiet but important update. Earlier this year, OpenAI released a privacy filter designed to automatically detect and remove personally identifiable information (PII) from data sent to their models. There was no splashy announcement—just a brief mention in the API documentation and some scattered reports from enterprise customers. ...
OpenAI’s New Privacy Filter: What It Does and How to Use It Enterprises have been eager to integrate large language models into internal workflows, but concerns about data leakage—especially of personally identifiable information (PII)—have slowed adoption. In late April 2026, OpenAI quietly released a privacy filter designed to detect and block PII before it reaches its models. This feature, available for ChatGPT Enterprise and certain API tiers, addresses one of the biggest compliance headaches for IT managers and data privacy officers. ...