# OpenAI — Keeping your data safe when an AI agent clicks a link

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2026-01-28T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: safety-policy-update
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/ai-agent-link-safety
- Record: https://forck.live/items/292-keeping-your-data-safe-when-an-ai-agent-clicks-a-link

OpenAI describes built-in safeguards to protect user data when AI agents open links, preventing URL-based data exfiltration and prompt injection.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/ai-agent-link-safety:

> Learn how OpenAI protects user data when AI agents open links, preventing URL-based data exfiltration and prompt injection with built-in safeguards.

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