People commonly disclose all kinds of personal data to AI chatbots, including the highly inadvisable practice of asking them for health advice. In addition to the grave medical dangers of obtaining inaccurate advice, users are also running significant privacy risks.
Most AI chatbots have terms and conditions that allow any of your conversations with them to be used as training data, and often app terms that allow data to be collated and sold. Democrats now propose to update a privacy law to prevent the sale of health data …
The Verge reports that two members of Congress are now planning to introduce legal protections to ban the sale of health data collected in AI chatbot sessions.
In the coming weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are planning to debut a new version of the Health and Location Data Protection Act […] expanded to ban other companies from selling such data to brokers, and to specifically cover data entered into AI systems.
As the piece notes, this is particularly timely when AI companies are actively encouraging users to upload health data.
