The Meta AI App Is a Privacy Disaster (techcrunch.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/13/020259/the-meta-ai-app-is-a-privacy-disaster
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/the-meta-ai-app-is-a-privacy-disaster/
The exposed conversations reveal sensitive information: people asking for help with tax evasion, whether family members might face arrest for proximity to white-collar crimes, and requests to write character reference letters that include real names of individuals facing legal troubles. Meta provides no clear indication of privacy settings during posting, and if users log in through Instagram accounts set to public, their AI searches become equally visible.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/the-meta-ai-app-is-a-privacy-disaster/
Why would this surprise anyone? (Score:2)
It's Meta.
Re: (Score:2)
> The Meta AI App Is a Privacy Disaster
Seriously... was there anyone who wasn't already certain this would be the case?
Well sure. That's Facebook. (Score:2)
Every single f@#$ing thing Facebook has ever done since they were created in 2004 to bag on @#$%es who wouldn't sleep with sociopath Zuck has been a complete privacy disaster. They pioneered data theft and dark UI for the entire internet as it exists today. You wouldn't have Tiktok as it exists without Facebook blazing the way down to hell. The entire purpose of anything they make is to stab their slobbering proboscis deep into your deepest parts and suck them dry for his evil empire.
Which I know isn't new
Working as intended (Score:2)
Nothing to see, move on.
Widespread privacy breach (Score:2)
You don't have any privacy on Social Media and on top of that META breaks out of the sandbox to track you, even in private browsing.
[1]Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android [github.io]
[1] https://localmess.github.io/
It really seems like data efiltration is the... (Score:3)
It really seems like data exfiltration is the real business for big tech. They keep releasing products that had to be specifically designed to fail from a cyber-security stand point. Chatbots, Windows Recall, cloud computing, off-site internet-connected storage of important data, all the stuff that Big Tech is pushing weakens the users over all opsec.
This software is not an unknowable, unopenable black box. It's a fucking chatbot. We've had them for decades. They're not very effective. They're entirely unproductive. And if a chatbot is sharing your information it's because it was programmed to do that.
Whatsapp next (Score:2)
So the Meta AI app is bad, but this shit will appear everywhere and in places where it serves no purpose. I have an uncle-in-law living in South Africa who came over to Ireland and had a problem with Whatsapp on his phone. The problem was it had a frigging AI chatbot stuck in the middle of the UI. He's hard of seeing so his phone had font zoom on everything and this thing was eating 20% of the screen. As far as I could tell there was no way to turn it off or hide it from the UI either and I tried.
Why did