TLDR InfoSec · MISCELLANEOUS

CHAT AT YOUR OWN RISK! DATA BROKERS ARE SELLING DEEPLY PERSONAL BOT TRANSCRIPTS

theregister.com2 min read

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Browser extensions posing as free VPNs or ad blockers are intercepting AI chats and feeding verbatim prompts and responses into commercial datasets, exposing names, health data, immigration issues, legal problems, and corporate secrets. Data brokers resell these searchable transcripts, undermining anonymization claims and creating major risks around re‑identification, patient privacy violations, abuse disclosures, and sensitive corporate leakage.