privacy
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The Prompt You Thought Was Private
A class-action lawsuit filed April 1, 2026 alleges that Perplexity AI shares the full text of user prompts with Meta and Google via hidden tracking scripts – including prompts entered in Incognito mode. The privacy setting controls what Perplexity saves. It does not control what Meta and Google receive.
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Screen Door on a Submarine
Incognito mode. VPN. Privacy settings. None of them stop tracking scripts from reading your AI prompts. TOR blocks the scripts. Self-hosted AI eliminates the scripts. One protects your identity. The other protects your thinking. You need both.
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The Waiver Nobody Read
EdTech vendors claim COPPA compliance by pointing to a school's blanket acceptable-use policy – a form that names no platforms, describes no data practices, and mentions no AI. The FTC has already ruled this illegal. The industry keeps doing it.