Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs
2026-07-01T08:52:09Z•b97971339658b55731d34aabe077b89da7af354c556d9d213fbd0b86c019efd8
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What happened
This WIRED security roundup highlights multiple high-risk privacy and security incidents across AI, cloud services, consumer apps, and national security. Key stories: Meta contractors reportedly impersonated teens to probe rival chatbots on suicide, sex, and drugs; a misconfigured Dialog site exposed membership data (with Pentagon review of potential unmasking of officials); and a leak revealed members of Peter Thiel’s Dialog society. Google security staff warned that proposed EU rules to open search/Android could create exploitable privacy/attack surfaces. Operational incidents include LastPa
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