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492 Perplexity's 'Incognito Mode' Is a 'Sham,' Lawsuit Says

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 04/03/2026 11:00 EDT

Perplexity's 'Incognito Mode' Is a 'Sham,' Lawsuit Says

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Perplexity's AI search engine encourages users to go deeper with their prompts by engaging in chat sessions that a lawsuit has alleged are often shared in their entirety with Google and Meta without users' knowledge or consent. "This happened to every user regardless of whether or not they signed up for a Perplexity account," the lawsuit alleged, while stressing that "enormous volumes of sensitive information from both subscribed and non-subscribed user

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