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Why you need to turn your training data off right now.

Featuring From the Weekly Meeting. Published July 11, 2026.

Michael Wacht gives a 17-second warning on why you should turn off training data sharing in your AI tools, and what companies retain if you don’t.

Protecting your data is a simple settings change, but many people miss it. This is pure, actionable utility for securing your information.

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