Online Safety

What Telefónica’s New AI Privacy Guide Means for Your Personal Data As more companies roll out artificial intelligence features, they’re also publishing promises about how they handle your data. Telefónica, the Spanish telecom giant, recently released a blueprint for AI privacy. The document is being held up as a model of “digital trust.” But for consumers, the key question is: what does this actually mean when you use an AI tool? ...

How School AI Policies Can Protect Your Child’s Privacy and Learning As schools start integrating AI tools into classrooms, parents and educators are asking the same question: Who is making sure these tools are used safely? A recent policy from the Central Bucks School District offers a concrete example of what a thoughtful AI policy looks like—and what other districts might learn from it. ...

How to Spot Companies That Actually Protect Your Data in the AI Era Every week there’s a new AI tool promising to save you time, organize your photos, or help you write better. As these services multiply, so do their privacy policies—and it’s getting harder to tell which companies genuinely care about your data and which treat it as a free resource for training their next model. ...

Meta Paused Its Employee Tracker—What It Means for Your Privacy and How to Stay Safe In late June 2026, news broke that Meta had temporarily suspended an internal tool that tracked employees’ mouse movements and other on‑screen behavior for AI training. The pause came after privacy complaints from staff and media scrutiny. While the immediate story focuses on workers inside Meta, the underlying practice—using fine‑grained behavioral data to train machine‑learning models—is much wider. Similar tracking technologies appear on many websites and in workplace software, collecting data that can reveal far more than users realise. ...

AI Governance Is Landing on Privacy’s Desk: What It Means for Your Data If you’ve used a chatbot, applied for a job online, or watched a streaming service recommend a show, you’ve interacted with AI that relies on your personal data. Until recently, how companies handled that data was mainly a privacy question. Now it’s becoming a governance question, too—and the two are merging fast. ...

AI Governance Just Changed: 3 Privacy Settings You Need to Update Today New rules around artificial intelligence are coming into effect, and they affect how companies like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft handle your personal data. If you use ChatGPT, Copilot, or Google Gemini, the changes are worth paying attention to—not because they’re dramatic overnight shifts, but because they shift the ground beneath how your information is collected, stored, and shared. ...

What New AI Governance Rules Mean for Your Privacy—and What to Do Now Over the past year, you’ve likely used an AI tool—whether it’s a chatbot, a photo editor, or a writing assistant. What you may not have noticed is that behind the scenes, a quiet shift is taking place. Governments are starting to hold these tools to the same privacy standards that apply to the rest of your digital life. The question is: what does that mean for the data you feed into AI systems? ...

What Microsoft’s Latest Email Security Data Tells Us About Protecting Your Inbox Every day, millions of emails land in our inboxes. Most are legitimate, but a growing number carry threats designed to steal passwords, spread malware, or trick us into sending money. Microsoft recently released a year-long benchmark of email threats detected and blocked by its Defender for Office 365 platform. The data covers patterns from millions of users and provides a rare, real-world view of what attackers are actually doing today. ...

Why AI Governance Is Landing on Privacy’s Desk—And What It Means for You A quiet organizational shift is underway inside many companies that use artificial intelligence. According to recent coverage from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), privacy teams are increasingly being asked to take on AI governance duties. This is not a minor administrative change — it changes who decides how your data is used when you interact with AI tools. ...

When AI Governance Lands on Privacy’s Desk: A Consumer Guide Policymakers around the world are racing to set rules for artificial intelligence. While much of the conversation focuses on what AI can do, a quieter but equally important discussion concerns what these rules mean for your privacy. The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) has been at the center of this debate, exploring how new governance frameworks will affect the personal data you share every day. ...