Muhammad Jazlan

PhD Student @ UC Davis

[Muhammad Jazlan @jazlan01]

AI chatbots are becoming the new search engine.

But what happens to your data when you chat with them?

We analyzed 20 popular AI chatbots and found widespread tracking — including cases where your actual conversations are shared.

https://t.co/O6LDhQRPX4

🧵👇

[Muhammad Jazlan @jazlan01]

AI chatbots are becoming the new search engine.

But what happens to your data when you chat with them?

We analyzed 20 popular AI chatbots and found widespread tracking — including cases where your actual conversations are shared.

https://t.co/O6LDhQRPX4

🧵👇

[Muhammad Jazlan @jazlan01]

Bottom line:

Your AI conversations may not be as private as you think.

As chatbots replace search,
this becomes a big privacy problem.

Full paper 👇
https://t.co/O6LDhQRPX4

[Muhammad Jazlan @jazlan01]

AI chatbots are becoming the new search engine.

But what happens to your data when you chat with them?

We analyzed 20 popular AI chatbots and found widespread tracking — including cases where your actual conversations are shared.

https://t.co/O6LDhQRPX4

🧵👇

[Muhammad Jazlan @jazlan01]

Privacy policies often say:

“We may share data for analytics/ads”

But rarely:
• Name all third parties
• Disclose conversation-level sharing

There’s a real transparency gap.

[Yash Vekaria @vekariayash]

Excited to share that my research (w/ @zubair_shafiq, @FascinatingTech, @nrllah) on "Understanding Data Collection, Brokerage, and Spam in the Lead Marketing Ecosystem" has been accepted for presentation at the 3rd @FTC Conference on Marketing and Public Policy in Washington D.C.

[Muhammad Jazlan @jazlan01]

Had a great time working on the third parties chapter this year.

We observed a decrease in the median number of third parties on a page. We suspect it's because of first parties colluding with third parties through CNAME cloaking or server-side tracking.

Try giving it a read😀

[HTTP Archive 💾 @HTTPArchive]

The 2025 Web Almanac by HTTP Archive has been officially released! 🚀

We would like to thank all of our contributors from around the globe who made this extensive report possible!

Check out the full report here: https://t.co/jbjjl77RYF

#thewebalmanac

[Muhammad Jazlan @jazlan01]

Had me for a second with the “here is what you talked about the most “

[Muhammad Jazlan @jazlan01]

The perfect ad doesn’t exist…

[Muhammad Jazlan @jazlan01]

Just came back from the Genius Bar today. They were unable to diagnose, detect or fix charging and connectivity issues.

Straight up refused to do anything about buggy connections, which they said they were unable to replicate. Turns out the warranty is useless unless they stop working altogether

[Muhammad Jazlan @jazlan01]

The production quality is incredible!

#AppleEvent