How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact
Andy GreenbergSecuritySep 22, 2026 5:00 AMHow to Use AI With Your Privacy IntactYour conversations with AI chatbots are both highly personal and deeply vulnerable to surveillance. “You're giving it this huge profile on you.”A decade ago, text messages represented perhaps the most personal, sensitive data that most people shared from their devices, says cryptographer and software developer Moxie Marlinspike. The surveillance dangers invited by unprotected texting are what pushed him in 2014 to create Signal, the end-to-end encrypted messenger now used by well over a hundred million people.
- ▪Andy GreenbergSecuritySep 22, 2026 5:00 AMHow to Use AI With Your Privacy IntactYour conversations with AI chatbots are both highly personal and deeply vulnerable to surveillance.
- ▪“You're giving it this huge profile on you.”A decade ago, text messages represented perhaps the most personal, sensitive data that most people shared from their devices, says cryptographer and software developer Moxie Marlinspike.
- ▪The surveillance dangers invited by unprotected texting are what pushed him in 2014 to create Signal, the end-to-end encrypted messenger now used by well over a hundred million people.
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Andy GreenbergSecuritySep 22, 2026 5:00 AMHow to Use AI With Your Privacy IntactYour conversations with AI chatbots are both highly personal and deeply vulnerable to surveillance. Here’s how you can protect yourself.Photo-Illustration: Jobanny Cabrera; Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyIf the tech industry sought to create a method of seducing users into sending their deepest, most sensitive secrets to a server in a faraway data center, it would be hard-pressed to create a better honeypot than an AI chatbot.OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and their countless smaller competitors have become therapists, sounding boards, and virtual confession booths for millions of people around the world.
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