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From Gmail to Word, your privacy settings and AI in a new relationship

If there were ever a time to understand your online data privacy settings, it's now in the AI era.

Many programs we use today — whether it be email, bookkeeping, or productivity tools, and social media and streaming apps — may be governed by privacy policies that lack clarity on whether our personal data can be used to train AI models. Ted Miracco, CEO of security software company Approov, said features like Microsoft's connected experiences are a double-edged sword — the promise of enhanced productivity but the introduction of significant privacy red flags. In areas such as copyright law, fears about massive copying by LLMs have been overblown, according to Kevin Smith, director of libraries at Colby College, but AI's evolution does intersect with core privacy concerns.

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