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Also in the news: Meta will use your AI sessions to target ads; Google is rolling out agentic AI shopping tools; OpenTable is gathering and sharing your dining habits; Amazon sues Perplexity over their agentic shopping tool; first ever reported AI-orchestrated hacking campaign; EU Commission looks to gut privacy laws; lawmakers want to ban all VPN use; US Senator uses opponents’ can VIN info against them; and new health privacy bill seeks to protect data in apps, smart watches.

Article Links

Meta won’t allow users to opt out of targeted ads based on AI chats https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/meta-wont-allow-users-to-opt-out-of-targeted-ads-based-on-ai-chats/
Google Is Rolling Out ‘Agentic Checkout’ to Make Your Purchases for You https://lifehacker.com/tech/google-is-rolling-out-agentic-checkout
Texas Server Says Your Waitstaff Can Now See What Type Of Customer You Are If You Use OpenTable https://brobible.com/culture/article/opentable-ai-customer-profiling/
Amazon sues Perplexity over ‘agentic’ shopping tool https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/perplexity-receives-legal-threat-amazon-over-agentic-ai-shopping-tool-2025-11-04/
Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage
Civil society decries digital rights ‘rollback’ as European Commission pushes data protection changes https://therecord.media/civil-society-privacy-rollback
Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing
Senate Democrats seek to ‘get to bottom’ of Moreno’s car-data collection https://rollcall.com/2025/11/06/senate-democrats-seek-to-get-to-bottom-of-morenos-car-data-collection/
Health privacy bill seeks protections for data collected by apps, smartwatches https://therecord.media/health-privacy-bill-seeks-protections-apps-smartwatches
Tip of the Week: Erasing Your Data: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/dragon-hacks-opt-out/

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Table of Contents

0:00:07: Intro
0:00:45: News briefs
0:02:57: News preview
0:05:38: Meta won’t let you opt out of AI data gathering
0:15:05: Google Is Rolling Out ‘Agentic Checkout’
0:20:13: OpenTable gathering and sharing your dining info
0:31:22: Amazon sues Perplexity over ‘agentic’ shopping tool
0:38:57: First reported AI-orchestrated cyber attack
0:51:33: European Commission pushes data protection changes
0:55:15: Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs
1:04:03: Senator uses VIN info against opponents
1:10:38: Health privacy bill seeks protections for data collected by apps, smartwatches
1:12:43: Tip of the Week
1:16:26: Looking ahead

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