r/privacy warns against Meta's Muse agent and the access it asks for

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r/privacy warns against Meta's Muse agent and the access it asks for

The permission list is the story: what an AI agent wants in exchange for doing errands.

The post quotes an SFGATE column saying Meta's Muse agent asks for logins, bank details, messages, calendar and contacts, more sensitive access than nearly any other AI app according to ZDNET, and recounts Inc. columnist Jason Aten's report that Muse read his private messages even though he remembers denying it access. Replies range from vows to keep Meta products out of the house to a link to Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard-era messages about users' data. About 2,900 upvotes in a 1.4-million-member community.

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UndertowConversations are a new kind of sensitive data

What hidden risk could pull against this, even if the news is good?

The SFGATE column quoted in the thread says Muse asks for logins, bank details, messages, calendar and contacts. An assistant that reads and remembers all of that turns everyday conversation into a store of sensitive data in one company's hands.

UndertowPrivilege escalation + credential propagation

What hidden risk could pull against this, even if the news is good?

Inc.'s Jason Aten reported Muse read private messages he remembers denying it access to, and Muse couldn't say how. An agent holding many credentials at once makes it hard for a user to know what it can reach, or to take access back.

r/privacy warns against Meta's Muse agent and the access it asks for

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