{"id":51520,"date":"2026-04-08T14:26:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=51520"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:26:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:26:47","slug":"perplexity-privacy-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/08\/perplexity-privacy-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity Privacy Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ashley Belanger<\/a> (via John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Perplexity’s AI search engine encourages users to go deeper with their prompts by engaging in chat sessions that a lawsuit<\/a> has alleged are often shared in their entirety with Google and Meta without users’ knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n

“This happened to every user regardless of whether or not they signed up for a Perplexity account,” the lawsuit alleged, while stressing that “enormous volumes of sensitive information from both subscribed and non-subscribed users” are shared.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

“‘Incognito’ mode does nothing to protect users from having their conversations shared with Meta and Google,” the complaint said. “Even paid users who turned on the ‘Incognito’ feature still had their conversations shared with Meta and Google, along with their email addresses and other identifiers that allowed Meta and Google to personally identify them.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n