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New GAO Report: How Privacy Tech Can Keep You Safe When Using AI If you’ve used a chatbot, an AI image generator, or even your phone’s autocorrect, you’ve traded some of your data for that convenience. How much, and where it ends up, isn’t always clear. A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) suggests that a set of privacy technologies could help tip the balance in favor of consumers—making it possible to use powerful AI without handing over the keys to your personal information. ...

What the GAO Says About Privacy Tech for Safer AI: A User’s Guide If you use ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other generative AI tool, you’ve probably wondered what happens to your data. It’s a fair concern. These services often send your prompts to remote servers, and that information can be used to retrain models – or worse, mishandled. ...

Want to Use AI Safely? A New Government Report Points to Privacy Tech That Helps Every time you ask a chatbot a question or use an AI image generator, your data goes somewhere. Often it’s processed on a company’s servers, and sometimes it’s stored or used to train the next model. For consumers concerned about where that information ends up, a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) offers some reassurance—and a roadmap. ...

Privacy Tech That Can Keep Your AI Use Safe: What You Need to Know If you use ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, or an image generator like Midjourney, you’ve probably wondered what happens to the data you type or upload. A recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) suggests that privacy-enhancing technologies—often called PETs—could be a practical answer. And for everyday users, the good news is that some of these protections are already available. ...

How Privacy Tech Can Make AI Safer for You: What the New GAO Report Says If you’ve used ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, or any other AI tool, you’ve probably wondered what happens to the data you type in. These services are incredibly useful, but they also raise real privacy questions. A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released on May 20, 2026, suggests that the answer may lie in something called “privacy-enhancing technologies” (PETs). Here’s what the report found, how these technologies work, and what you can do to protect your own data in the meantime. ...