Personal data and privacy

Personal data is not only information that shows who you are right away, like a name and phone number. Location and purchase records also count, because put together they can single out one person. Health, financial and biometric data do great harm if they leak, so they are handled more strictly.

Conversations you have and files you upload to an AI service are stored on the company's servers, and depending on the service they may be used to train the model further. Many services let you turn this off in settings, and business products often do not use your data for training from the start. Even so, it is safer not to enter a national ID number or other people's information.

A conversation with an AI is less like a diary and more like papers you hand to a clerk at a counter. Before handing something over, stop and ask, "Is it okay to show this?"

As AI starts to handle your email, calendar and files, how much information to trust it with, and where, is an important question for everyone. The setting for "is my conversation used for training" is worth checking once.