OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google [View all]
Source: Futurism
A new class action lawsuit accuses OpenAI of sharing data including user chat queries and personal identifying information like emails and user IDs with the tech giants — and targeted advertising behemoths — Meta and Google, without obtaining proper user consent.
Filed yesterday in California, the lawsuit claims that OpenAI’s data-sharing with Google and Meta violates the California Invasion of Privacy Act, known as CIPA, as well as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. It points specifically to OpenAI’s integrations with Meta Pixel and Google Analytics, which are data-tracking and collection tools that facilitate targeted advertisements.
The data-tracking model described in the lawsuit — often referred to as “surveillance capitalism” — is the business that the modern internet is built on today. And OpenAI, like countless other tech companies, does include language in its privacy policy noting that it does collect, store, and share a range of consumer inputs and personal information.
That said, human-like chatbots like ChatGPT are an intensely personal technology, even more so than the social media platforms that came before them. It’s well-understood that millions of people turn to chatbots for emotional support and mental healthcare, with many even using ChatGPT explicitly as a therapist. For countless people, ChatGPT is a friend, confidante, or even romantic partner, to which they may divulge their innermost thoughts and feelings. And even if a consumer doesn’t have a close emotional relationship with the bot, they may still use it for assistance with business, physical health, finances, and legal advice.
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Read more: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-personal-information-meta-google
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