Digital Privacy

Meta’s AI Keystroke Tracking: What It Means for Your Privacy Earlier this year, reports surfaced that Meta had developed an internal tool designed to capture user keystrokes and mouse clicks for training artificial intelligence models. The company reportedly began testing the tool on internal data, with plans to eventually deploy it across its family of apps—Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. After employees raised concerns, Meta scaled back the project. But the incident raises a broader question: what does keystroke tracking mean for everyday users, and how can you protect yourself? ...

How to Use Brave’s Containers to Boost Privacy and Organize Your Tabs Privacy-focused browsers keep adding features that give users more control over how their data flows between websites. Brave recently introduced container tabs, a tool that isolates browsing sessions so that cookies, storage, and tracking scripts from one set of sites don’t leak into another. For anyone juggling multiple accounts or trying to limit cross-site tracking, this is a practical upgrade. ...

Meta Is Tracking Your Keystrokes to Train AI: What That Means for Your Privacy Recent reports have confirmed what many privacy advocates feared: Meta has been collecting keystroke and mouse click data from users of its platforms to train its artificial intelligence models. While the company frames this as a necessary step for improving AI, the practice has sparked internal employee concerns and brought renewed attention to how much of our digital behavior is being monitored without clear consent. ...

Brave’s New Containers Feature: What It Is and How to Use It for Better Privacy Browser containers aren’t new—Firefox has offered them for years—but Brave’s recent implementation brings the concept to a Chromium-based browser without requiring an add-on. As some analysts have noted, Brave’s browser containers raise the bar for privacy and workflow flexibility by making session isolation simple and built-in. This article explains how the feature works, why it matters, and how you can start using it today. ...

AI Scribbles: Privacy Warning as Doctors Use AI Scribes – What Patients Need to Know You sit down in the consulting room. The doctor greets you, and a few seconds later a small microphone or a phone on the desk lights up. An AI scribe is now listening to everything you say. It will turn your conversation into clinical notes automatically, saving the doctor time typing. But what happens to that recording and the data it contains? ...

AI scribes are recording your doctor visits — here’s what to know about your privacy If you’ve visited a doctor’s office lately and noticed the physician typing less and talking more to a screen, you might have encountered an AI scribe. These tools listen to appointments, transcribe conversations, and generate clinical notes automatically. Adoption has surged in the past year — doctors report it saves them hours of paperwork. But a recent warning from the Australian government is raising alarms about what happens to that recorded data. ...

Doctors Are Using AI Scribes More Than Ever—Here’s What That Means for Your Privacy You may have noticed your doctor typing less during appointments recently. Instead, they might be using an “AI scribe” – software that listens to your conversation and automatically writes up clinical notes. These tools are becoming standard in many clinics, and for good reason: they save time, reduce burnout, and let doctors focus on you rather than a screen. ...

AI Scribes in Doctors’ Offices: What You Need to Know About Your Privacy You sit down for a check-up, and your doctor starts typing notes into a computer. Increasingly, that typing is being replaced by an AI app listening to the conversation and generating a summary in real time. The technology, often called an AI medical scribe, promises to free doctors from paperwork and let them focus on you. But recent warnings from government authorities—most notably in Australia—are raising uncomfortable questions about where that audio and text data ends up, who can access it, and whether patients are being told at all. ...

How to protect your privacy when your doctor uses an AI scribe Doctors in Australia and elsewhere are rapidly adopting AI-powered “scribes” that listen in on consultations, transcribe conversations, and automatically generate clinical notes. The trend promises efficiency and reduced paperwork, but a recent warning from the Australian government has put a spotlight on serious privacy risks. If you’ve ever wondered whether your medical appointment is being recorded and where that recording ends up, you’re not alone. Here’s what’s happening and what you can do about it. ...

What to Know About Doctors Using AI Scribes for Your Privacy If you have visited a doctor recently and noticed them spending less time typing or writing notes during your appointment, an AI scribe may have been involved. These tools listen to conversations between patients and clinicians, then automatically generate clinical notes. The technology is being adopted in many countries as a way to reduce physician burnout and allow doctors to focus more on patients. But it also raises questions about how your health data is handled, who has access to it, and whether you have consented to being recorded. ...