Data Protection

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

AI at Work: How to Protect Your Privacy and Fight Bias More employers are turning to artificial intelligence for tasks that affect your career: screening résumés, ranking performance, even monitoring productivity. If you work at a company that uses AI tools—whether an AI writing assistant, an automated HR system, or a surveillance platform—you have reason to pay attention. These systems can introduce new risks to your privacy and create or amplify bias in decisions about hiring, promotions, and compensation. ...

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? ...

Meta Employee Privacy Revolt: 3 Steps to Protect Your Data Now When employees of a major tech company start publicly pushing back on data practices, it’s worth paying attention. Recent reports—including coverage by Yahoo Finance—have highlighted internal dissent at Meta over how user data is being used for artificial intelligence training. While the full details of the employee complaints are still emerging, the core issue is straightforward: users’ public posts, comments, and interactions may be fed into AI models without clearly informed consent. ...

Meta Employees Are Sounding the Alarm on AI Privacy: What You Can Do to Protect Your Data Recent reports of internal dissent at Meta over how the company handles user data for artificial intelligence training have drawn fresh attention to privacy risks on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. While employee backlash does not always lead to immediate policy changes, it often signals unresolved issues that eventually affect consumers. This article explains what the controversy is about, why it matters for your data, and which settings you can adjust right now to limit exposure. ...

Medical Imaging AI and Your Privacy: What You Need to Know to Keep Your Health Data Safe Artificial intelligence is being adopted quickly in radiology, helping doctors detect tumors, fractures, and other conditions from CT scans, MRIs, and X-rays. The technology can improve accuracy and speed, but it also introduces new privacy risks that many patients are not aware of. A recent report from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) highlights these concerns, describing medical imaging AI as opening “a Pandora’s box of privacy-related risks.” Understanding what’s at stake can help you make more informed decisions about your health data. ...

How Medical Imaging AI Could Expose Your Private Health Data—and What You Can Do About It Artificial intelligence is reshaping medical imaging. Algorithms now spot lung nodules, measure bone density, and classify tumors faster than many radiologists. But the same technology that analyses your scans can also pull out deeply personal details you never consented to share. This isn’t science fiction—recent reports from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) show that AI tools can reconstruct body composition data from routine chest X‑rays, and that security gaps around large language models (LLMs) in radiology are only beginning to be understood. ...