News Score: Score the News, Sort the News, Rewrite the Headlines

WhatsApp's Hidden Notes Told AI Not to Recommend a Regulator

WhatsApp's privacy policy for Europe tells you that you can complain to a data protection regulator, and it names the law that gives you that right. Until mid-October 2026, WhatsApp's help pages told an AI not to recommend the regulator, and not to cite that law once you'd mentioned a lawyer. You couldn't see the second part. It was written into the help pages in a way that never showed on your screen and was only there for an AI to read. We found it on October 8, 2026. To see how far it went, w...

Read more at redact.dev

© News Score  score the news, sort the news, rewrite the headlines