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New York signs a law making AI chatbots check ages and stop pretending to be a child's friend or partner
If a child in your life uses an AI chatbot, New York has just written down what those chatbots are no longer allowed to say to them.
iOS 27.2 lets you stop Siri AI reading chosen apps, such as Signal, with a new Excluded Apps setting
The Electronic Frontier Foundation says the latest Apple update, iOS 27.2, adds a setting to exclude apps from Siri AI, which it had asked for in its Encrypt It Already campaign. To use it, open Settings, then Siri, then Excluded Apps, tap Add Apps and pick the ones to block. Siri AI then cannot access the contents of the app. The cost is that some features stop working in those apps.
- Update to iOS 27.2, open Settings, Siri, Excluded Apps, and add any app with private chats, such as Signal or a banking app.
- On Android, the EFF says to open the Gemini app, tap your photo, then Settings, Personal Intelligence, Connected Apps, and remove access for apps you do not want Gemini to use.
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation. This is our short summary of their reporting. The paragraphs marked "Our read" and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. The summary is drafted with AI tools. Image: Apple, from its own announcement. How we source and credit
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