Topic: data sharing
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Lawsuit Claims Perplexity's Incognito Mode Misleads Users
A class action lawsuit alleges Perplexity's AI search engine transmits entire user chat logs, including sensitive conversations, to Google and Meta, contradicting its privacy promises and regardless of subscription or Incognito Mode use. The complaint specifically claims the platform's Incognito ...
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Social Security Data Shared With DHS to Target Immigrants
The Social Security Administration has acknowledged sharing citizenship and immigration data with the Department of Homeland Security for enforcement, with the disclosure made through a belatedly updated public notice after data exchanges had already begun. Legal experts highlight potential viola...
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DHS Held Chicago Police Records for Months, Violating Spy Rules
The Department of Homeland Security improperly retained Chicago Police Department records for seven months, violating intelligence oversight rules and raising surveillance concerns by keeping data on approximately 900 residents. The shared gang database was highly unreliable, containing errors li...
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Google's Antitrust Ruling: Impact on Search, SEO & AI Assistants
The antitrust ruling against Google bans exclusive default search agreements and requires the company to share some search data with competitors, though it avoids structural breakup. This decision increases negotiating power for distribution partners like Apple and may raise Google's costs while ...
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DOJ Reaches Settlement in RealPage Rent-Fixing Case
The Department of Justice has reached a settlement with RealPage, imposing strict new rules on how it collects and uses pricing data to address allegations of artificially inflating rental costs. RealPage's proprietary algorithm was accused of aggregating confidential data from landlords to recom...
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OkCupid settles facial recognition data sharing lawsuit
The FTC settled with OkCupid for allegedly sharing nearly three million user photos and data with facial recognition firm Clarifai without proper consent, violating its own privacy policy. The settlement requires OkCupid and parent company Match Group to avoid future misrepresentations about data...
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Enterprise Data's Fate in the Age of Ubiquitous GenAI
Generative AI's rapid business integration is creating significant new security vulnerabilities, accelerating data exposure, and outpacing existing organizational policies and controls. The adoption of these tools has led to a massive increase in sensitive data shared with AI applications, with a...
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Google's UCP Checkout: New Retailer Tradeoffs Explained
Google's new Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) allows direct checkout in its AI search results, offering retailers a chance to capture high-intent customers but at the potential cost of brand experience and customer data control. The system creates a dynamic similar to selling on Amazon, where re...
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Learn from AI Marketing Wins and Fails to Avoid Costly Mistakes
AI marketing requires balancing innovation with risk management, as it can enhance campaigns but also introduce errors that damage brand integrity. While AI can scale marketing efforts and produce impressive results, its quality and reliability depend on human oversight and judgment to avoid miss...
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Search Growth Slows as Publishers Consider Leaving Google
Alphabet's Q2 2026 earnings showed Google Search revenue grew 17% year over year to $63.27 billion, a slight deceleration from Q1's 19% growth, while the company raised its 2026 capital spending forecast to between $195 billion and $205 billion, betting heavily on AI. A federal judge dismissed Go...
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Google and Apple Battle EU Over AI Assistant Rules
The European Commission is using the Digital Markets Act to demand that Google open Android to third-party AI agents by July 2027, aiming to prevent Apple and Google from dominating the AI assistant market through their smartphone control. Apple and Google are resisting, warning that granting thi...
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How to Disable Your Video Doorbell and Protect Your Privacy
Video doorbells offer convenience but raise privacy concerns due to their integration into broader surveillance networks and questions about who can access footage. Companies like Ring have a strained relationship with consumers over data-sharing practices, including controversial partnerships wi...
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Adam Mosseri's Spy Denial Video Sparks Backlash
Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, addressed concerns about phones listening to private conversations by denying audio surveillance and offering alternative explanations for targeted ads. Targeted advertising can result from users' online activities, such as website visits or searches, and data sha...
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AI boom prompts firms to rethink value metrics
A KPMG report reveals a major gap: 95% of organizations have an AI strategy, but only 8% report established ROI, highlighting a disconnect between adoption and enterprise-level value realization. Traditional software metrics (logins, subscriptions, isolated app performance) fail to capture AI's t...
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Best and worst AI for privacy, ranked: how each handles your data
Incogni's 2026 "Gen AI and LLM Data Privacy Ranking" evaluates 13 AI platforms, finding that larger companies like Google's Gemini and Meta AI pose the highest privacy risks, while Mistral's Vibe, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Inflection's Pi are the safest options. The rankings are based on how conversa...
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European Users Can Now Reduce Personal Ads on Facebook & Instagram
Meta will introduce a new option for EU users in 2026 to reduce personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram, offering a middle ground between full personalization and limited data sharing. This change directly responds to regulatory pressure and a €200 million fine under the Digital Markets Act (D...
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Chinese Smart Home Apps: Apple Privacy Labels Often Misleading
Smart home apps, especially from China, exhibit major transparency failures, with significant discrepancies between Apple's App Store privacy labels, their own privacy policies, and their actual data collection behavior, misleading consumers. These applications collect extensive sensitive data, i...
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Federation: The Fix for Broken Watch Lists
The modern streaming landscape is fragmented, with each service maintaining its own isolated watchlist, making it difficult for users to retrieve saved content across platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Google TV. A proposed solution is data federation, allowing users to opt into sharing watchlist ...
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UK Regulator Labels Google Search a "Strategic Market" Power
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has granted Google strategic market status for its core search and search advertising services, enabling regulators to impose targeted interventions to protect competition and consumers. This decision, part of the UK's new Digital Markets Regime, exclude...
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Ring's Search Party Is On by Default: Should You Turn It Off?
Ring's Search Party feature uses AI to scan footage from nearby outdoor cameras to help locate lost dogs, notifying camera owners of potential matches for manual review and sharing. The feature is enabled by default on compatible devices, raising concerns about user consent and digital privacy, t...
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