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watched a privacy startup coin a term and land it in The Independent + NY Post headlines. the term: "AI doxxing." no agency. no retainer. one pitch with the right framing. the play: - they noticed Gemini was leaking people's real phone numbers - named it before anyone else did - "AI doxxing, the privacy story of 2026" pitched it as a trend, not a product - The Independent ran the quote verbatim. NY Post syndicated it. both put the term in the headline like it was already canon - that's the whole game now. you don't ask for coverage. you hand a journalist a word they didn't have yet. the company's @ClearNym - they're building the actual fix. worth a look if you've ever googled your own name and flinched.

@elvissun hey Elvis! thanks for mentioning! and yeah, in a world with AI you really do have to watch where your data lives, because it surfaces instantly. that's exactly what we're for: pulling your info off the sites these models pull it from.

we have just made some crazy security calculations... simply think about it: an identity theft report is filed with the FTC every 20 seconds. means three americans every minute! so just a reminder: it's not only because someone hacked them. more often because someone bought the missing pieces.

@SabriSun_Miller Hi! We are open to speak. DM'd you.

most people don't know this happened. last week Instagram quietly turned off encryption for DMs. the messages you send now pass through meta's servers in a form the company can read. before may 8, they technically couldn't. the official reason was that almost nobody used the feature. the thing they don't say is that the feature was hidden four taps deep in the settings of each chat - no banner, no popup, nothing in the app telling you it was there. the part that's harder to ignore: Meta says they don't use DM content for ad targeting right now. same privacy policy lets them use your data "to improve our products." they're also shipping AI tools that need a lot of data... none of that proves anything on its own. but there's nothing technical stopping any of it anymore. fair tradeoff or quiet betrayal?

have you ever googled your own phone number? what came up? curious if others are seeing this

ok so this is wild. a guy on reddit found out google's gemini keeps giving out his real phone number as a "placeholder" in ai responses. strangers call him every day. he filed a privacy request to google over a month ago. crickets. post hit 1,435 upvotes and turns out he's not alone

the uncomfortable truth: your data outlasts your consent. something you signed up for in 2014 with a forgotten email is now training the model your kids will use in 2030. we're calling this new threat class "ai doxxing." it deserves a name because it's not going away. #AIDoxxing #DataPrivacy #AIEthics

✅ google your own phone number, email, full name. see what's public. you'll be surprised. ✅ if you live in EU/CA, file gdpr/ccpa requests with broker sites. it's tedious but it works. ✅ push back politically — we need an opt-out for ai training, not just data collection.

We think you have already heard that Booking got hacked again. People are already getting scam messages with their real hotel and travel dates. This is their 5th breach in 10 years. $27B company. Biggest fine? €475K. We wrote about what actually happened and what to do 👇 clearnym.com/blog/booking-c…

Really sad to see people already getting scammed from this. If you were affected - we want to help! We suppose your data has most likely already ended up on data broker sites, and a new wave of scams is just getting started... At ClearNym we find your exposed data and remove it. First scan is on us!

‼️ Booking.com has been breached — threat actors accessed customer data and reservations, and are actively abusing it. A Reddit user says he reported the breach over two weeks ago after being phished with his own reservation details, but Booking said everything was fine on their end. "Given how weak their security appears to be, I'm not surprised"

@sama @sama Molotov cocktails may start with a Google search for your home address. We remove personal data from the internet before it becomes a threat. Lifetime access is yours — on us. DM's open.

I wrote this early this morning and I wasn't sure if I would actually publish it, but here it is: blog.samaltman.com/2279512