The specificity and quantity of information the text and multimedia platform can access poses a risk to most users, if it falls into the wrong hands or is used to target them, tech experts agree.

“This is a hacker’s dream,” said Claudette McGowan, a longtime banking executive who founded Protexxa, a Toronto-based platform that uses artificial intelligence to rapidly identify and resolve cyber issues for employees.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve never given ANY platform accurate or correct information about me, and the information I DO give is salted to make it easy for me to trace where the leak/hack/whatever came from.

    Why this is not taught in grade school is beyond me.

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      There’s a lot of things not taught in public schools that ought to be. Also a lot of things that are taught that shouldn’t be.