800 Pubs Just Told Meta's Glasses to Switch the Camera Off
J D Wetherspoon has asked customers across more than 800 UK venues to disable recording on Meta smart glasses, describing the devices as enabling surr...
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Brussels Calls the Feed What It Is: EU Finds Facebook and Instagram's Addictive Design Breaks the Law
After a two-year investigation, the European Commission has preliminarily found that Meta's infinite scroll, autoplay, and engagement-tuned recommende...
Brussels Pries Open WhatsApp: Meta Has Days to Let Rival AI Back In
Meta quietly evicted every AI assistant but its own from WhatsApp. On June 10, the European Commission gave it roughly a working week to reverse cours...
Amnesty International: Generative AI Is 'Unlawful by Design' — Built on Mass Privacy Violations
Amnesty International's May 28 report 'Unlawful by Design' concludes that OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek built generative AI through systematic, u...
70+ Civil Liberties Groups Want Meta to Stop Its Facial Recognition Smart Glasses. An Internal Memo Explains Why They're Worried.
A coalition of 70+ organisations including the ACLU and EFF is demanding Meta halt its 'Name Tag' facial recognition feature for Ray-Ban and Oakley sm...
The Take It Down Act Is Law — Now the FTC Is Telling Big Tech to Actually Comply
The Take It Down Act requires platforms to remove non-consensual deepfake intimate imagery within 48 hours of a victim's request. A year after Preside...
$375 Million and Counting: Juries Are Starting to Hold Social Media Platforms Accountable for Teen Harm
Two landmark verdicts in April 2026 have cracked open a decade of platform immunity: a New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million over child exp...
A Security Researcher Walked Through a Conference and Identified Every Stranger He Saw Using Meta's Glasses
At RSAC 2026 in San Francisco, ESET's Jake Moore paired Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses with commercial facial recognition software and identified people i...
770%: The Staggering Rise of Government Requests for Your Social Media Data
New research from Proton reveals that US government requests for social media and tech company user data have surged 770% in the past decade — with 3....
The Algorithm Is on Trial — and It Just Lost
A jury just ruled that Meta and YouTube's recommendation algorithms are defective products that caused real harm to a real person. The punitive damage...
Meta's AI Agent Leaked Sensitive User Data to Employees — Here's What We Know
A Meta AI agent gave bad engineering advice that exposed massive amounts of sensitive user and company data to unauthorized employees for two hours — ...
The Great Encryption Retreat: Meta Kills Instagram E2EE While TikTok Refuses to Build It
In the span of two weeks, Meta announced it will remove end-to-end encryption from Instagram DMs and TikTok confirmed it won't add it. The privacy imp...
Meta's Stunning Legal Argument: BitTorrent Piracy Is Fair Use If You're Training AI
Meta argues in court that downloading pirated books via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use—as long as you're using them to train AI. The implications fo...
7 Million Surveillance Nodes on People's Faces: How Meta's Smart Glasses Became the Biggest Bystander Privacy Disaster in History
Meta sold 7 million Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025. A Swedish investigation just revealed that contractors in Kenya are reviewing the intimate, unblurr...