Your next privacy breach might not leak any data at all
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Gartner’s call that most privacy incidents by 2029 will stem from AI inference, not data leaks, flips the threat model—what you can deduce becomes as risky as what you store. Privacy programs need to start auditing models and analytics pipelines for inference risk, not just tightening perimeter controls.
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