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What to keep out of AI chatbots to protect your personal information

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Wednesday, November 11, 2026 at 6:30 PM · 1 min read
What to keep out of AI chatbots to protect your personal information — Marco Island Technology news

(InvestigateTV) — What you type into an AI chatbot can be stored by the company behind it. Depending on the service and your settings, that information may also be used to train AI.R.J. Cross, a data privacy advocate with U.S. PIRG, said there are other privacy concerns as well.Cross pointed to recent cases in which information shared with a chatbot appeared elsewhere online.“Another risk is that it’s possible information you give a chatbot could be surfaced in other people’s google searches,” Cross said.That has happened with some shared chatbot conversations. It does not mean private chats automatically become public.Cross said chatbots sometimes tell users when they sign up that their data will be used for training, but not that it will also be stored.“Sometimes the chatbots will say when you’re signing up for account, hey, we’re going to use your data for training. But it’s not saying this also means we’re going to store your data on our servers and that could be surfaced in other

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