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Meta's standalone AI app, launched in April 2025, has a Discover feed carrying conversations people have shared. Through May and June it filled with things nobody appears to have meant to publish: medical questions, home addresses, court details, someone asking how to evict a tenant. The share control looked like the share control in every other Meta app, where sharing is the ordinary act, and here it published a private conversation to strangers. The text quoted above is the warning Meta added afterwards. Same failure as the OpenAI case above and worth reading with it: neither was a breach, both were a consent flow that people walked through without understanding what they had agreed to.
Meta, in Engadget
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