Phia, an AI shopping agent co-founded by Bill Gates’ daughter Phoebe Gates, has been collecting more than just users’ fashion preferences through its desktop browser extension.
Four cybersecurity researchers told Fortune that the company’s browser extension, which is aimed at simplifying price comparisons for users, has been capturing a concerning amount of users’ information. In a previous version of the browser extension, researchers found that a snapshot of every web page a user of visited—including sites containing highly sensitive information such as bank statements and private emails—was transmitted back to Phia’s servers, even when users were not interacting with e-commerce sites.
