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The $670,000 Leak Nobody Calls a Breach

Sixty-seven percent of executives admit their company has already leaked data through an unapproved AI tool. No hacker was involved. The exposure happened through normal product use, which is precisely why the security industry keeps missing it.

By Audrey Liang · 3 min read

Tech & AI

Your Data Trained Their Model and You Were Never Asked

More than 10 billion requests hit the web every week from AI crawlers pulling content for training datasets. The people whose writing, opinions, and personal disclosures built these systems were never asked. The gap between "publicly accessible" and "consented to AI training" is where billions in value quietly disappear.

By Audrey Liang · 3 min read

Tech & AI

The TikTok Sale Is a $10 Billion Permission Slip

The Trump administration wants $10 billion from TikTok's new US investors, and the app will still run on ByteDance's algorithm. I've been on this platform for 3 years and I'm genuinely not convinced the ownership change protects a single byte of my data.

By Milo Hart · 3 min read

Tech & AI

Your Government Has No Idea Where Its Data Actually Lives

Governments are loudly claiming data sovereignty while their vendors quietly hold the encryption keys. The policy exists. The operational controls mostly do not. This is your data they're talking about.

By Milo Hart · 3 min read

Tech & AI

Nobody Owns the Delete Button When AI Presses It

When an AI agent destroys your data, no one is clearly responsible. That is not a legal gap waiting to be filled. It is a feature of how AI vendors have designed their contracts, and courts are currently enforcing it.

By Audrey Liang · 3 min read