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12 years and counting!

12/4/2024

Thank you WNC for 12 great years! It has been a privilege to support the community since 2012. Here's to the next chapter of our journey together! 🎉

Jensen Gelfond
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Asheville Digital Lifestyle

AI chatbots exposed personal information. Here's how to protect your identity.

12/4/2024

People have started using artificial intelligence, but there are reasons to be cautious, starting with your personal information. Artificial intelligence startup WotNot, which helps companies create chatbots for their websites & apps, left data typed into their customers' chatbots out in the open, ripe for being heisted. Exposed information included passport info, medical histories, employment records, and more. Click here to check out the sordid details.

The exposed info could be used by hackers to stage more believable scams, or for identity theft. It makes us wonder how well other companies are shepherding the data that AI is siphoning up. Even well-resourced companies like Microsoft are creating systems that leave customer data vulnerable while implementing AI that records everything that happens on your screen.

Just in case your personal data is leaked, one of the most meaningful steps you can take to prevent identity theft is to freeze your credit. Click here to check out our post with instructions on how to check and freeze your credit.

Bonus tip as we approach tax season: you can lock down your social security number to prevent it from being used to file a fraudulent tax return by creating an Identity Protection PIN. Click here for instructions from the IRS.

12 years and counting!

AI chatbots exposed personal information. Here's how to protect your identity.

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