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)
Under the guise of an easier workday and increased productivity, Google has been exposing more and more of its users to Gemini.
They say data won't be used for training, but Google hasn’t been reliable in the past.
So how do we get rid of this unwanted digital twin? ♊️
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In Gmail:
- Go to Settings
- Select your Gmail address
- Clear the Smart features checkbox
- Go to Google Workspace smart features
- Clear the 2 Smart features... checkboxes
Workspace settings apply globally across Workspace and Drive, so these only need to be done once.
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Want to make a longer-lasting change which will stop this from happening, even if they suddenly re-enable or introduce new AI features? Switch over to Proton Mail.
Gmail is offering 3bn users a “personal, proactive inbox assistant”.
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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