Privacy
What happens to the things you type into an AI assistant, why AI conversations are more revealing than search history, and how to tell a real privacy guarantee from a well-worded promise.
Asking AI the Questions You'd Never Type Into a Search Bar
Health, money, legal, and personal questions are where AI is most useful and most exposing. What makes these queries different, and how to ask them properly.
How to Read an AI Privacy Policy: What the Terms Actually Permit
A field guide to the standard clauses in AI privacy policies — what 'we don't sell your data' leaves open, how training opt-outs really work, and the five questions that matter.
AI Apps That Don't Collect Your Data: How to Verify the Claim
Every AI app says it respects your privacy. Here are seven tests you can run yourself — in about ten minutes — that separate architectural guarantees from marketing language.
Why Your AI Conversations Are More Sensitive Than You Think
People share things with AI that they wouldn't tell their doctor, lawyer, or closest friend. That's not a bug — it's a feature of the medium. But it creates privacy risks most users never consider.
The AI Privacy Checklist: 7 Things to Look For in Any AI App
Before you use an AI app for anything personal, run through these seven questions. They'll tell you more about your real privacy than any privacy badge or promise ever will.
AI Privacy: Why Your Conversations With ChatGPT Aren't As Private As You Think
Every message you send to ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude travels to a corporate server, gets stored, and may train future models. Here's what actually happens to your data — and why on-device AI is the only architectural guarantee of privacy.
What Happens to Your ChatGPT Conversations? A Data Privacy Deep Dive
ChatGPT stores your conversations by default, uses them to improve its models, and shares data with third parties. Here's exactly what happens to everything you type — and what you can do about it.