{"id":222107,"date":"2026-03-10T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/federal-judge-blocks-perplexitys-ai-browser-from-making-amazon-purchases\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:01:00","slug":"federal-judge-blocks-perplexitys-ai-browser-from-making-amazon-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/federal-judge-blocks-perplexitys-ai-browser-from-making-amazon-purchases\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge blocks Perplexity\u2019s AI browser from making Amazon purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal judge blocks Perplexity\u2019s AI browser from making Amazon purchases<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/amazon-perplexity-comet-browser-injunction\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-10 15:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n

A federal judge has blocked Perplexity, makers of the Comet AI browser, from accessing user Amazon accounts and making purchases on their behalf.<\/p>\n

In an March 9 order, Judge Maxine Chesney of the Northern District Court of California said the temporary injunction reflects the likelihood that Amazon \u201cwill succeed on the merits\u201d of its claim that Perplexity\u2019s AI agents violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act.<\/p>\n

The court held that Amazon \u201chas provided strong evidence that Perplexity, through its Comet browser, accesses with the Amazon user\u2019s permission but without authorization by Amazon, the user\u2019s password-protected account.\u201d<\/p>\n

Per the ruling, Perplexity must prohibit Comet from accessing, attempting to access, assisting, instructing or providing the means for others to access Amazon user accounts. Perplexity must also delete all Amazon account and customer data it collected along the way.<\/p>\n

Perplexity told the court that the purchases were legitimate and legal because their users had authorized their AI agent to make the purchases on their behalf. But Amazon has explicitly denied them such permission, saying the agents make mistakes, interfere with Amazon\u2019s own algorithm and place their users at an elevated cybersecurity risk.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Chesney wrote that Amazon has incurred \u201csignificantly more\u201d than $5,000 needed to qualify as computer fraud, including the cost of time spent by Amazon employees to develop new web tools to block Comet\u2019s access to private customer accounts and detect future unauthorized access by the browser.<\/p>\n

According to Amazon, they have asked Perplexity officials on five separate occasions to cease covertly accessing Amazon\u2019s store with its agents. In a cease-and-desist letter sent to Perplexity Oct. 31, 2025, attorney Moez Kaba of law firm Hueston Hennigan wrote to Perplexity, alleging the automated purchases degrade the online shopping…<\/p>\n

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