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<p>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.</p>
<h1 class="wp-block-heading">Article Links</h1>
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<li>Meta won’t allow users to opt out of targeted ads based on AI chats<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/meta-wont-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/</a></li>
<li>Google Is Rolling Out ‘Agentic Checkout’ to Make Your Purchases for You<a href="https://lifehacker.com/tech/google-is-rolling-out-agentic-checkout"> https://lifehacker.com/tech/google-is-rolling-out-agentic-checkout</a></li>
<li>Texas Server Says Your Waitstaff Can Now See What Type Of Customer You Are If You Use OpenTable<a href="https://brobible.com/culture/article/opentable-ai-customer-profiling/"> https://brobible.com/culture/article/opentable-ai-customer-profiling/</a></li>
<li>Amazon sues Perplexity over ‘agentic’ shopping tool<a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/perplexity-receives-legal-threat-amazon-over-agentic-ai-shopping-tool-2025-11-04/"> https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/perplexity-receives-legal-threat-amazon-over-agentic-ai-shopping-tool-2025-11-04/</a></li>
<li>Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign<a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage"> https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage</a></li>
<li>Civil society decries digital rights ‘rollback’ as European Commission pushes data protection changes<a href="https://therecord.media/civil-society-privacy-rollback"> https://therecord.media/civil-society-privacy-rollback</a></li>
<li>Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing"> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing</a></li>
<li>Senate Democrats seek to ‘get to bottom’ of Moreno’s car-data collection<a href="https://rollcall.com/2025/11/06/senate-democrats-seek-to-get-to-bottom-of-morenos-car-data-collection/"> https://rollcall.com/2025/11/06/senate-democrats-seek-to-get-to-bottom-of-morenos-car-data-collection/</a></li>
<li>Health privacy bill seeks protections for data collected by apps, smartwatches<a href="https://therecord.media/health-privacy-bill-seeks-protections-apps-smartwatches"> https://therecord.media/health-privacy-bill-seeks-protections-apps-smartwatches</a></li>
<li>Tip of the Week: Erasing Your Data: <a href="https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/dragon-hacks-opt-out/">https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/dragon-hacks-opt-out/</a> </li>
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<h1 class="wp-block-heading">Further Info</h1>
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<li>Ask ARC to delete data and stop sharing: <a href="https://www.404media.co/how-to-opt-out-of-airlines-selling-your-travel-data-to-the-government/">https://www.404media.co/how-to-opt-out-of-airlines-selling-your-travel-data-to-the-government/</a> </li>
<li>My book: <a href="https://fdsd.me/book">https://fdsd.me/book</a> </li>
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<h1 class="wp-block-heading">Table of Contents</h1>
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<li>0:00:07: Intro</li>
<li>0:00:45: News briefs</li>
<li>0:02:57: News preview</li>
<li>0:05:38: Meta won’t let you opt out of AI data gathering</li>
<li>0:15:05: Google Is Rolling Out ‘Agentic Checkout’</li>
<li>0:20:13: OpenTable gathering and sharing your dining info</li>
<li>0:31:22: Amazon sues Perplexity over ‘agentic’ shopping tool</li>
<li>0:38:57: First reported AI-orchestrated cyber attack</li>
<li>0:51:33: European Commission pushes data protection changes</li>
<li>0:55:15: Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs</li>
<li>1:04:03: Senator uses VIN info against opponents</li>
<li>1:10:38: Health privacy bill seeks protections for data collected by apps, smartwatches</li>
<li>1:12:43: Tip of the Week</li>
<li>1:16:26: Looking ahead</li>
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