Andrey Cooper | AI Privacy

CTO. Built and broke AI systems.
I write about AI misuse, privacy failures, and false security.
Founder @ — privacy-first anonymization.

[Andrey Cooper | AI Privacy @CoopTheBuster]

The real problem isn’t AI security—it’s that most people don’t understand what “security” even means.

When users can’t tell what’s sensitive, they can’t protect it. Instead, they avoid using AI altogether.

Platforms that make risk visible—and fixable—matter.

Are you concerned about AI privacy?

https://t.co/5TRneiYPSU

[Business Insider @BusinessInsider]

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, top executives like EY's Raj Sharma and KPMG US CEO Tim Walsh are voicing concerns about AI security and the looming risks of quantum computing. https://t.co/mbTW3xp3uv

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@UncleJAI Oh, absolutely.
“Rework token generation.
I don’t care how.
I need it to run under 3 seconds.”
2am energy.

[Andrey Cooper | AI Privacy @CoopTheBuster]

Secret opinion:
Vibe coding allows you to be the true abusive self

[Andrey Cooper | AI Privacy @CoopTheBuster]

Unpopular opinion:
The first jobs AI wipes out aren’t developers — they’re $50 portfolio site builders.

If your value is “pick a theme + fill text,” AI already does it better.

Wix, Squarespace — the easy money is gone.

[Andrey Cooper | AI Privacy @CoopTheBuster]

The Cambridge Analytica scandal wasn’t illegal.

At the time.
No hack.
No breach.

Just a Facebook quiz — fully compliant.

Your data leaked through friends you trusted.
This wasn’t a security failure. It was a consent design failure.

If data can spread without visibility or control, what exactly did users agree to?

https://t.co/1P5OsxwV1O

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@Dexerto As a father, I approve!

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Employers, banks, and insurers already know at least this much.

If a journalist can re-identify you,
don’t assume others can’t.
Privacy without control isn’t privacy.

https://t.co/kKXFV0rb6m — bi-directional privacy middleware

[Andrey Cooper | AI Privacy @CoopTheBuster]

Washington State sold “anonymized” hospital records for $50.

No names. No addresses. Just ZIP, age, sex, diagnoses, admit month.

Researchers matched 43% of patients to real names
using newspaper articles alone.
No hack. No leak. No crime.

“Anonymous” by policy. Identifiable by math.

Proof ↓

[Andrey Cooper | AI Privacy @CoopTheBuster]

Harvard Data Privacy Lab (Latanya Sweeney):

“Matching Known Patients to Health Records in Washington State Data”

https://t.co/JkYQfjTmRX

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@VadimStrizheus Sleeping

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That's an impressive engineering!

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Birds sometimes build complex nests to mislead predators, hiding their eggs deep inside for safety.

[Andrey Cooper | AI Privacy @CoopTheBuster]

The head of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency uploaded “For Official Use Only” documents to ChatGPT.

Not classified. Still sensitive. Still public AI.

Same agency that blocks employees from using ChatGPT.

This isn’t an AI problem.
It’s a power + process + privacy + tools failure.

Who’s accountable when “authorized exceptions” leak at scale?

What if they used the right tools?
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[Andrey Cooper | AI Privacy @CoopTheBuster]

The Epstein files aren’t a failure of justice.
They’re a failure of privacy tooling.
Names were masked.
Accounts were hidden.
Money still flowed.

Bad anonymization protects criminals.
Good bi-directional anonymization would have exposed the system instead.
Privacy isn’t secrecy.
It’s control.
Agree?

Use the right tools for your privacy: https://t.co/5TRneiZnIs

[Andrey Cooper | AI Privacy @CoopTheBuster]

@ishaansehgal Prompting juniors and reviewing code, sounds the same to me.

[Andrey Cooper | AI Privacy @CoopTheBuster]

Two steps:
- AI detects & masks sensitive fields → you validate in real-time. Fast.
- Your local key encrypts the mapping → final doc ready for sharing.

Zero-knowledge architecture — nothing stored, DB exposure reveals nothing. Standalone detection model, not AGI. One job perfected.

If you'd like to learn more: I am available to chat.

[Andrey Cooper | AI Privacy @CoopTheBuster]

Thank you for the honest message, Peter.
If you’re trying to understand the hype — start here:

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

The amount of crap I get for putting out a hobby project for free is quite something.

People treat this like a multi-million dollar business. Security researchers demanding a bounty.
Heck, I can barely buy a Mac Mini from the Sponsors.

It's supposed to inspire people. And I'm glad it does.

And yes, most non-techies should not install this.
It's not finished, I know about the sharp edges.
Heck, it's not even 3 months old.
And despite rumors otherwise, I sometimes sleep.

[Andrey Cooper | AI Privacy @CoopTheBuster]

@rahulsood Some people are obsessed with privacy, others are setting on fire.

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X became useful again

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The most important discovery so far today.