Does a VPN protect your privacy when using ChatGPT or Claude? What network encryption can and can’t hide from AI
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VPNs hide your location, not what you type into AI tools. If staff are pasting sensitive data into assistants, you need data governance and DLP at the app and API layer, not just another network tunnel.
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