ChatGPT's new Computer History tracks your Mac activity to create a timeline - but should you let it?
Executive Take
Any tool that logs activity across all your apps becomes a bigger target and a bigger liability. IT and security teams need a policy on this before employees turn it on themselves.
Executive Summary
OpenAI is rolling out a "Computer History" feature to ChatGPT's Mac app that tracks user activity across apps and websites to build a timeline. The feature raises questions about data privacy, since it logs what users do on their computer beyond ChatGPT conversations.
Why It Matters
Technology and cybersecurity leaders need to know employees may enable broad activity tracking on work devices without approval. This creates new data exposure risks that IT policies likely don't yet cover.
Bizquad Perspective
The real risk isn't OpenAI's servers, it's that employees will opt in on company laptops before any IT policy exists to stop them.