---
type: "Evidence Item"
title: "Fighting the New York Times’ invasion of user privacy"
description: "OpenAI is fighting the New York Times’ demand for 20 million private ChatGPT conversations and accelerating new security and privacy protections to protect your data."
resource: "https://openai.com/index/fighting-nyt-user-privacy-invasion"
tags: ["appendix-iii", "vendor", "openai"]
timestamp: "2025-11-12"
category: "vendor"
publisher: "OpenAI"
cope_score: 42
confidence: 0.9
---

# Fighting the New York Times’ invasion of user privacy

# Claim

OpenAI is fighting the New York Times’ demand for 20 million private ChatGPT conversations and accelerating new security and privacy protections to protect your data.

# Relevance

Appendix III, section two: vendor threshold and platform capability evidence

# Oracle Verdict

This is a low-signal vendor radar item. Keep it as context only unless a later benchmark, deployment, procurement change, or labour-market datapoint turns it into direct Appendix III evidence.

# Metadata

* Publisher: OpenAI
* Category: vendor
* Sector: Cybersecurity
* Capability: Cyber defence and misuse monitoring
* Cope score: 42
* Confidence: 0.9

# Related Concepts

* [Live evidence index](index.md)
* [Thesis](../thesis.md)

# Citations

[1] [Fighting the New York Times’ invasion of user privacy](https://openai.com/index/fighting-nyt-user-privacy-invasion)