Muse is Collecting YOUR Data (Even if You Don't Use It)
Our top stories this week:
- Meta's Muse Is Building Dossiers on Your Friends and Family, Even If They Never Signed Up
- AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
- Kagi Ends Orion Browser Development for Linux, Will Open-Source It
- Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services
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The Ultimate Email Aliasing Tier List
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News Briefs
This week's news updates include how Apple is tightening their "full disk access" permission on Mac to address AI agent security concerns and a call from our executive director on ways you can support Privacy Guides with your Donor Advised Fund (as well as an explanation of what that is, if you're unfamiliar).
Jonah Aragon
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Meta's Muse Is Building Dossiers on Your Friends and Family, Even If They Never Signed Up
Meta's Muse - their viral AI assistant - had it's instructions extracted by a security researcher, who showed that Muse extracts data about and builds profiles on the people you regularly interact with. Meta notes that this is intentional behavior to make the assistant more useful in your day-to-day life, but it raises serious questions about collecting data on people who haven't consented.
Regyl Jaen