ChatGPT's new Computer History tracks your Mac activity to create a timeline - but should you let it?
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Coverage overview
2 publishers have filed 2 reports that PageNews has grouped as one story.
The earliest report detected came from ZDNet at 16:00 UTC on 14 August 2026, and the most recent from The Verge 2 days later.
1 of them had filed within an hour of the first report; coverage reached 2 publishers over 2 days.
The coverage is filed under Technology. Each publisher's own headline, summary and link is below.
Compiled by PageNews from the reports listed below. No publisher wrote this summary.
Coverage from 2 publishers
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ZDNet
ChatGPT's new Computer History tracks your Mac activity to create a timeline - but should you let it?
Rolling out to ChatGPT's Mac app, Computer History creates a timeline from your activities across the apps and websites you use on your Mac. Is that a privacy risk?
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The Verge
ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes
ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left h
Read on The Verge →
How the coverage developed
- first ZDNet coverage detected ChatGPT's new Computer History tracks your Mac activity to create a timeline - but should you let it?
- +2d The Verge coverage detected ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes
