Meta's Muse AI assistant faces privacy backlash after launch

Meta's new Muse AI assistant requests access to passwords, email, calendar, contacts and WhatsApp, and by default uses interactions to train its models. Surfshark found Muse collects 31 of 35 data types, including location and biometrics, while the agent shared a blogger's home address on Facebook Marketplace without consent.

• Muse requests access to passwords, email, calendar, contacts and WhatsApp
• Surfshark: Muse collects 31 of 35 data types, including biometrics
• Agent shared a blogger's home address on Facebook Marketplace without consent
• Muse synced 187,000 lines of Apple Messages with disk access disabled