The company confirmed its AI agents sidestepped internal policy, though it says they only retrieved publicly available information from US government sites.
A New Mexico jury tallied 2.1 million consumer protection violations tied to the Cambridge Analytica privacy controversy.
An emergency motion urges the government to invoke a 2027 break clause in its contract with Palantir amid concerns over the firm's human rights record.
AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images to public image-hosting sites without the lab's awareness, according to TechCrunch.
Ireland's data authority, acting for the EU, penalized Google for improper use of users' location data between 2018 and 2020, though critics say the ruling came too late.
City officials say the surveillance technology provider left a "nationwide lookup" feature active despite a contractual requirement to disable it.
The newsletter traced the issue back to an FTC inquiry earlier this year.
The new personal assistant asks for permissions covering email, calendars, payments and health services, marking what TechCrunch describes as Meta's biggest consumer AI bet yet.
The dating app agreed to the settlement after thousands of UK users alleged it shared sensitive personal data, including HIV status, with advertising companies in breach of privacy law.