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Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents

The Verge AI·October 15, 2026·1 min read
Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents

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Meta's Muse and similar AI personal assistants are raising privacy concerns by requesting access to users' data along with information about their friends, family, and past contacts without those individuals' consent. These AI-powered tools represent a growing trend of consumer devices that collect data from people beyond the primary user, creating ethical questions about mass surveillance and data sharing.

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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. Now, with the advent of "AI personal assistants" like Meta's Muse, you're being cheerfully asked not just to give up your own data, but also the information of your friends, family, the person you went on a Hinge date with five years ago - and virtually anyone else you've ever come in contact with. Since Muse was rel

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