Meta announced on Wednesday that data collected from user interactions with its AI products will soon be used to sell targeted ads across its social media platforms.
Meta will soon use what people tell its artificial intelligence chatbot to get even better at selling them things. The company said users' chats and interactions with Meta AI will soon be used to target them with even more personalized ads. https://cnn.it/4nXks2K
-- CNN (@cnn.com) Oct 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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What other data might Meta be collecting?
For example ...
University warns of man recording women on campus with Meta glasses
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... University of San Francisco Department of Public Safety officials sent an alert to students Thursday about a man who is wearing Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses and recording women on campus.
The man "has approached women with unwanted comments and inappropriate dating questions," university officials wrote. He may have posted some of the uncomfortable encounters on his TikTok and Instagram pages under the name "pickuplines.pov," according to the alert message.
POV is an acronym for "point of view" that's frequently used on TikTok to describe a first-person perspective.
Safety officials described the man's behavior on campus as "suspicious," and multiple women have reported him.
According to Meta, their high-tech glasses have wide-angle HD lenses that can record videos by simply saying, "Hey Meta, take a video," or by pressing a tiny button on the frame.
"Ray-Ban Meta glasses and sunglasses combine iconic style with the latest in wearable tech, allowing you to capture photos and videos. Capture what you see and hear quickly with a button built into the right temple of your glasses," Meta's website writes.
Meta's new tech has apparently raised concerns about privacy and harassment on USF's campus after students ended up on the stranger's social media accounts. ...
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