AI chatbots: California Invasion of Privacy Act's next frontier
By Maria Dinzeo ( May 29, 2026, 23:28 GMT | Comment) -- AI companies are finding themselves in the crosshairs of California's decades-old anti-wiretapping law, illustrated by two class actions against OpenAI for allegedly embedding tracking technology in the ChatGPT website that secretly transmitted users' queries to Meta and Google. This comes just as OpenAI is building out an ad business of its own.With a new wave of California Invasion of Privacy Act cases just starting to build against AI chatbots, it’s reasonable to assume that no corner of the internet is safe from its reach....
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