Facebook was served with a legal warrant and returned a set of messages in which mother and daughter discuss how to properly use abortion pills. The pair appear to have not enabled the optional message encryption.
Meta allegedly violated Texas’ CUBI and the Deceptive Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act in capturing and profiting from facial recognition data without obtaining required informed consent, and failing to delete this stored data after a required amount of time.
Users of Meta AI may have been ambushed by the fact that no other chatbot offers anything quite like its chat-sharing Discover feed, and that it seems such a privacy-invasive idea that it is baffling a major company would actually include it at all let alone as a standard opted-in feature.
After multiple stories of OpenAI and Anthropic AI models going rogue and independently opting to breach live targets on the internet, Meta has joined in with claims that at least one AI model made its way to the internet and exploited a security vulnerability in a target.
A joint operation by Meta and law enforcement authorities from 10 countries has taken down 150,000 scam accounts and nabbed 21 suspected masterminds of online fraud.
Android user web browsing data may have been provided to Meta and/or Yandex due to a "loophole" in the operating system's loopback interface, regardless of the use of "incognito mode" or any other common privacy protections that would otherwise thwart user tracking.
The endgame for AI chatbots was always integration of targeted ads, but Meta plans to do more than make Meta AI just another arm of its internet-spanning data collection network. The plan is for the chatbot to eventually function as a shopping assistant that can search for products and put them into shopping carts.
An internal memo sent to Meta risk division workers on October 29 by Protti outlined the company's intention to lay off hundreds of privacy compliance staff, as part of cost-cutting measures that shift more duties from humans to AI.
Meta is now looking at an EU ban after the EDPB reached a decision on a case referred from Norway. The terms of the decision require Meta to stop behavioral advertising across most of the EU by November 10.
In addition to the $25.4 million antitrust fine, the CCI has ordered Meta to cease this element of cross-app user data sharing for five years. The order wraps up a probe that began in March 2021.
