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Perplexity 'Incognito' chats might not be so private, lawsuit claims (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 6 days ago by ryujin470@fedia.io to c/technology@beehaw.org

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A proposed class action lawsuit claims that Perplexity covertly shares chat content with both Google and Meta for ad targeting.

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[–] fogetaboutit@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

we still need to trust their environment... be it open source or otherwise, they have every mean to audit your messages or intercept it when touching their GPU...

[–] RebellionFox@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

You're right. That's always the case when using ~~someone else's computer~~ the cloud.

Moxie addresses it in this blog post. https://confer.to/blog/2026/01/private-inference/