European Parliament blocks AI on lawmakers' devices, citing security risks

Source: TechCrunch

The European Parliament has reportedly blocked lawmakers from using the baked-in AI tools on their work devices, citing cybersecurity and privacy risks with uploading confidential correspondence to the cloud.

Per an email seen by Politico, the parliament’s IT department said it could not guarantee the security of the data uploaded to the servers of AI companies and that the full extent of what information is shared with AI companies is “still being assessed.”

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Uploading data to AI chatbots, like Anthropic’s Claude, Microsoft’s Copilot, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, for example, means that U.S. authorities can demand the companies that run the chatbots turn over information about their users.

AI chatbots also typically rely on using information that users provide or upload to improve their models, increasing the chance that potentially sensitive information uploaded by one person may be shared and seen by other users.

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Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/european-parliament-blocks-ai-on-lawmakers-devices-citing-security-risks/

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Good idea.

And not just for European lawmakers the AI bros and the Trump regime would want to spy on.

In general, any information you give any AI model could end up being used to train the AI (do NOT trust AI companies' promises that it won't be), and transcripts of your exchanges with any AI model could end up posted on the internet (that's happened already with multiple AI companies).

So, for instance, never use AI for anything valuable you're writing, since it's quite possible a helpful chatbot will give your work or a close copy of it to another user who might request something similar.

Suno AI, for instance, has had TOS warning that a song generated for you might also be given to someone else.

But that warning would apply to anything you input as well as anything generated for you.

Just think of that "helpful" chatbot as the greatest surveillance and data-gathering device ever invented. Especially if you're foolish enough to leave it on to listen and respond to vocal commands, because that isn't all it's doing.