A New Mexico state court ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for misleading statements about data privacy between 2010 and 2021, raising questions about how per-violation penalties scale against Big Tech revenue.
A Futurism investigation found teenage boys using Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses to record and harass classmates in middle and high schools, with content remaining online until platforms were contacted directly.
California residents filed federal class actions this week alleging OpenAI transmitted ChatGPT queries to Google and Meta via standard analytics pixels, arguing that automated interception of AI chat violates wiretap law.
Meta ended optional end-to-end encryption on Instagram DMs on May 8, 2026. TikTok confirmed in March it will never offer it. The Take It Down Act takes effect May 19. These three facts are connected, and the connection matters more than any single one of them. What just happened On May 8, 2026, Meta removed … Read more