Meta's Muse AI assistant accused of overcollecting user data
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Meta's AI personal assistant Muse has sparked a privacy row since launch. According to The Verge, Muse reached millions of downloads in its first month and topped Apple's App Store, but its requests for access to bank accounts, passwords, contacts and chat histories have drawn scrutiny. Privacy experts say the consent mechanisms involved have long since stopped working. The dispute now centres on how much data Muse collects from users and their friends, and how that consent is obtained.
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- The Verge · AIFriends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents
There's a growing trend in the consumer tech world: gadgets designed to spy on everything and everyone around you, regardless of whether or not anyone else actually consented to it.
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