Study finds ad trackers inside nine major AI chat services, sometimes with conversation data
The paper names the services and the specific data flows, so you can check the ones you use.
Researchers at IMDEA Networks analysed the web and mobile versions of nine conversational AI services. They found several sending conversation titles, prompts or screenshots to third-party trackers, often with persistent user identifiers, and some exposing conversation permalinks without access controls. They reported the findings to the providers and European data-protection authorities.
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Web tracking
After exploring Prompt like a Butterfly, Sting like a Tracker: A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents, for how the tracking works in general, see Web tracking.
How websites and third parties collect, store and share information about visitors’ activity, the practice the study finds inside AI chat apps.
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