US EditionHow Your Private ChatGPT And Gemini Chats Are ‘Sold For Profit’
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A study conducted by researchers at the Koi cybersecurity company on privacy-related extensions has found that some are collecting and selling complete user conversations on major AI platforms. These malicious extensions, available for Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and other Chromium-based browsers, can detect and capture conversations from ten AI platforms, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok and Met…
The Urban VPN Proxy extension, downloaded 6 million times on Chrome and stamped "recommended" by Google, collects all the exchanges with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. The data is then resold to advertisers. Seven other modules of the same editor apply the same process on 8 million browsers.
Featured Chrome Browser Extension Caught Intercepting Millions of Users' AI Chats
A Google Chrome extension with a "Featured" badge and six million users has been observed silently gathering every prompt entered by users into artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots like OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, xAI Grok, Meta AI, and Perplexity. The extension in question is Urban VPN Proxy, which has a 4.7 rating on the Google Chrome
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