From your bank statements and travel documents, to your company’s financial data and customer details – you can easily make sure they don’t become exposed on the internet.
Here are some ways to protect your sensitive documents when exchanging them online 🧵👇 (1/6)
ChatGPT Atlas isn’t just another browser: it watches, infers, and acts on your behalf. Worryingly, there are still many open questions about how this product protects user data.
If you're curious about what that means for privacy, read on…
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With this release, OpenAI has allowed ChatGPT access to browser memory, whilst also being an agent that can perform actions: filling out forms, opening pages, and other tasks.
OpenAI says these features are optional; they can be disabled, and memory can be erased.
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Agentic AI can cause issues; Perplexity's Comet had a vulnerability called CometJacking, allowing malicious actors to hide instructions for the AI in URLs.
This could be used to extract data from email or calendars, download malicious files, even attempt to purchase things.
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Social media platforms are some of the biggest culprits in gathering up every bit of your personal data.
#TikTok, for instance, is infamous for tracking everything you do in their app. It’s difficult but possible to keep at least some of your data to yourself. 🧵
1️⃣ Don't sign up for a social media account with your real email address.
Email aliases are the easiest way to protect your identity while accessing these data-guzzling platforms. That's why #ProtonMail gives you email aliases.