News Summary

• AI search engine Perplexity has been hit with a new lawsuit that claims it shared users’ data with Google and Meta without their permission.
• The lawsuit, filed earlier this week in federal court in San Francisco, claims that the tool incorporated ad trackers such as Facebook Meta Pixel, Google Ads, and Google DoubleClick into its code.
• The plaintiff is seeking damages of up to $5,000 per violation, and a ruling to stop perplexity from engaging further in this type of unauthorized sharing of personal data.