{"id":253332,"date":"2026-04-08T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/data-privacy-and-foundation-models-can-we-have-both\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:45:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:45:58","slug":"data-privacy-and-foundation-models-can-we-have-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/data-privacy-and-foundation-models-can-we-have-both\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Privacy and Foundation Models: Can We Have Both?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hai.stanford.edu\/policy\/data-privacy-and-foundation-models-can-we-have-both\">Data Privacy and Foundation Models: Can We Have Both?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hai.stanford.edu\/policy\/data-privacy-and-foundation-models-can-we-have-both\">https:\/\/hai.stanford.edu\/policy\/data-privacy-and-foundation-models-can-we-have-both<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-08 03:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"hai.stanford.edu\">hai.stanford.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Key Takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Foundation models pose unprecedented and largely unaddressed privacy risks that are broader and harder to address than those posed by traditional AI systems.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>These risks emerge across the entire model life cycle \u2014 from the mass scraping of personally identifiable information during training, to the memorization and regurgitation of sensitive information in model outputs, to the intimate data that users unwittingly disclose through chatbot interfaces.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Foundation models are also vulnerable to adversarial attacks, including prompt injection, data poisoning, and model inversion, that can circumvent privacy safeguards and expose sensitive personal information.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Existing privacy frameworks, including the EU\u2019s GDPR, are fundamentally incompatible with how foundation models are built, yet neither the EU nor the United States has enacted comprehensive rules that could meaningfully change developer behavior.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Without clear regulatory guardrails, the public remains largely dependent on developers to voluntarily protect their privacy. Policymakers must weigh a range of governance mechanisms that require removing personal data from the training data pipeline, increase model transparency, ensure the creation of systems that protect privacy by design, and constrain privacy-infringing model outputs.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Introduction<\/h3>\n<p>Imagine receiving a security alert from your bank: A fraudster cloned your voice and used it to bypass the bank\u2019s digital security measures and empty your bank account. The tool they used? A generative AI model trained on publicly available data, cloning your voice with an old YouTube video you\u2019d forgotten was online. Or consider prompting a chatbot to tell you what it knows about you, and it surfaces deeply personal information gleaned from pseudonymous posts you once made online.<\/p>\n<p>These examples underscore the profound privacy challenges posed by foundation models \u2014 large-scale, general-purpose AI models that stand apart in their ability to impact society&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hai.stanford.edu\/policy\/data-privacy-and-foundation-models-can-we-have-both\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data Privacy and Foundation Models: Can We Have Both? https:\/\/hai.stanford.edu\/policy\/data-privacy-and-foundation-models-can-we-have-both Publish Date: 2026-04-08 03:00:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/hai.stanford.edu\/assets\/images\/privacy_foundation_models_cover.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-253332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy","tag-general-data-protection-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253334,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253332\/revisions\/253334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}