… In 2019, Facebook paid $5 billion to the FTC to resolve a separate privacy case, including allegations tied to its face recognition software—the largest privacy penalty in the agency's history at the time. The legal pressure on Meta's design choices has only intensified. …
… As is always the case with unencrypted data, it will inevitably end up in the wrong hands.” Marlinspike wrote that he will “work to integrate Confer’s privacy technology so that it underpins Meta AI.” He also emphasized that Confer, which debuted at the beginning of this year, will continue to oper… …
… But as with any cloud system, chatting with Meta AI on WhatsApp will ultimately involve trusting Meta in the same way using WhatsApp for communication does. “A big part of our work at WhatsApp relates to when there’s a perfect solution that’s very hard to use—how do you give people other options th… …
… Experts say that Meta's decision about Instagram chat could give other companies, or even simply other divisions within Meta, permission to do less, too. “Meta's deployment of encryption was a public commitment, and they were weathering a lot of pressure from various governments to do it,” says Joh… …
… Meta AI would then create charts, summarize the info, and give a “referral nudge if needed.” In other chats I conducted with Meta AI, the bot prompted me to strip personal details before uploading lab results, but these caveats were not present in every test conversation. “People have long used the… …
… Palantir also does not clearly link the form from its homepage or its privacy policy, and the researchers were unable to locate any opt-out process on Palantir's site, Meta, X, OpenAI, or Tinder without logging in first. …
… Like their forerunner, the doomed Google Glass, the Meta Ray-Ban and Oakley glasses, which range in price from $299 to $499, are up against a privacy-minded backlash. …
… Meta Strips Encryption From Instagram DMs Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has pulled support for end-to-end encrypted messages on Instagram, backtracking on its plans to protect people’s privacy by providing messaging the company could not snoop on. …
… They cited “serious concerns around privacy, consent, and trust in the workplace” and contended that “any approach to AI that relies on intrusive, coercive, nonconsensual data collection contradicts” Meta’s responsible AI principles. …
… Meta doesn’t have the greatest track record on privacy, and the company has continued to push forward with policies that are questionable at best. …