Newswired.comMuse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Meta's new AI agent Muse collects detailed profiles of your contacts and nudges users to share bank, email and passport data, raising serious privacy concerns.
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
Meta's AI agent Muse, downloaded by millions, has been found to build detailed profiles of users' friends and family while nudging people to hand over sensitive personal data.
The app encourages users to share bank account, email and passport information, opts them into AI training data collection, and was found to have a serious security flaw that Meta says it has since patched.
Privacy experts warn that using AI agents like Muse comes with significant surveillance trade-offs, and users should review what data they have shared before trusting the app with more.
If you have downloaded Muse, check your privacy settings as the app opts users into data collection for AI training by default and encourages sharing sensitive personal documents.
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