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New Delhi: Perplexity AI is under scrutiny because it is accused of sharing the user data with major tech companies like Google and Meta without any proper consent. A lawsuit has been filed against Perplexity AI, which was led by CEO Aravind Srinivas, accusing the company of enabling third-party trackers to access sensitive user information.
The case has been filed on behalf of the users which has identified as John Doe, who stated that he has shared some personal financial details, including his family’s finances, his tax obligations, his investment portfolio, and strategies with Perplexity’s chatbot.
Case has filed a class-action complaint in federal court in San Francisco on March 31, which proposes that the class-action complaint claims that as soon as the users log into Perplexity’s home page, trackers are downloaded onto their devices, giving Meta and Google full access to the conversation between them and Perplexity’s AI Machine search engine.
The user’s personal data is shared even when they sign up for Perplexity’s Incognito mode.
The proposed class-action lawsuit has claimed that trackers are installed on users’ devices when they log into Perplexity’s website. These trackers allegedly enable Meta and Google to access the conversations between the users and the AI chatbot.
The complaint states that this data could be used for targeted advertising or shared with other parties. It has not received any lawsuit matching the description and cannot verify the claims. Meta has pointed to its policies stating that advertisers are not entitled to send sensitive information to the company.
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