One of Kaspersky's greatest concerns is how social media apps, such as TikTok and Instagram, constantly collect data on a user’s location, browsing habits, and even voice data.

There is one wrinkle, however. Tax companies can use your information to "produce a statistical compilation of data," according to the law governing disclosure of tax information.

The Chinese chatbot took the world by storm and rattled stock markets. But lost in all the attention was a focus on how the company is collecting and storing data.

South Korea's spy agency has accused Chinese AI app DeepSeek of "excessively" collecting personal data and using all input data to train itself, and questioned the app's responses to questions ...