COVERT Protocol Action #4: Harden your Communications and Services
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This episode focuses on strengthening the security and privacy of digital communications through various encryption methods and service settings.
AI assistants have been positioned as productivity tools. Structurally, they are the most sophisticated data collection interfaces ever built — ones that convince users to voluntarily disclose their most sensitive information in the form of natural language conversation. This episode covers what ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot actually do with your data, the corporate exposure epidemic (77% of employees are transmitting sensitive data to AI tools), how AI has supercharged the data broker industry through psychographic inference, and the government access problem that no privacy setting can fully solve. Key Stats 4% of AI prompts and 20% of file uploads contain sensitive information (Harmonic Security, 2025) 3 million sensitive records exposed per organization by GenAI tools in H1 2025 77% of enterprise employees leak sensitive data via AI tools 67% of AI tool interactions happen on personal accounts IT cannot monitor 802,000 files at risk per organization in Microsoft 365 environments (Copilot access surface) 16% of business-critical Microsoft 365 data is overshared Psychographic AI inference: 70%+ accuracy predicting political, religious, psychological traits from behavioral data…
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