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A New Mexico jury has ruled that Meta misled state residents about how their data was being used, marking yet another legal consequence from the Cambridge Analytica fallout. Years after that scandal broke, the company is still absorbing courtroom verdicts that underscore just how long privacy violations can follow a platform.
On a related note, Meta is also in the news for something forward-looking — opening early access to new features inside its Muse platform. The catch is a familiar one in the AI world: you have to ask Muse itself to put you on the list, which raises its own quiet questions about who controls the gate and how that queue actually works.
And then there is Shopify, where a privacy researcher is drawing attention to how the company handles consent defaults across every store it hosts. The argument is pointed — that silence from a user is being treated as agreement, meaning millions of shoppers may be opted in without ever making an active choice. It is a design decision with real consequences at enormous scale.
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