u/Allasdair

Hello Community,

Saw a post asking if they can turn off the AI summary feature in Meta's Messenger app, which would (should) prevent it from reading your chat history and get rid of that annoying AI Summary Prompt.

Good news, you can!

[Meta Help Center](https://m.facebook.com/help/messenger-app/2016594885417423/?helpref=uf\_share)

Navigate to a messenger chat you want it turned off, tap on the chat name (or info button), find the privacy and support tab and tap on Message Permissions.

Tap the toggle next to allow message sharing to 'off' and you're all set.

Hope this helps those wanting privacy but have friends that don't want to use Signal, etc. and insist on using Messenger. You can at least put a stop to the AI harvesting..

Group chats: Admins (if there is one) can only turn the setting on/off.

1-1 chats: You both have the ability to turn it on/off. It's the same switch so if you turn it off, your friend could turn it back on.

https://reddit.com/link/1svv6ni/video/krlh8l154gxg1/player

In light of the news on Ford having patents surrounding technology that harvests your biometric data to determine if you're fit to drive, I found this video giving a great breakdown on how this is a violation of our rights.

We should avoid this technology and really push back at alternatives.

I'm all for more modern ways to better road safety. But not at the cost of some corporation selling off my data and insurance companies filing a subpoena for the data to use against us for claims and raising our rates.

The video abruptly ends. I made a part two so you can watch the rest in a different post.

Part 2 link: here