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Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission
Publisher description: Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.
TechCrunch | Sep 30, 2026 | Sarah Perez
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Meta is refuting a journalist’s claim that its AI agent Muse read the user’s private messages without permission. Whether users can trust Muse will be a deciding factor in whether or not Meta wins the consumer AI market. However, Aten’s report claimed that when Muse read his messages, Full Disk Access was off.
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