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Technology columnist who writes about Apple, consumer software and how products treat the people using them.
Apple announced on October 2 that macOS Full Disk Access can be granted only through very explicit user action, citing the added risk from AI agents. Agent builders can scope to user-selected folders now.
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Apple said on Oct 2 it will add macOS controls for Full Disk Access after an Inc columnist said Meta's Muse agent read his private messages. The new step governs how users consent, and a user who completes it still gives an agent the whole disk.
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Inc. columnist Jason Aten says Meta's Muse agent synced his Mac texts up to row 187,462 while Full Disk Access showed as off. Meta says that cannot happen, so the dispute is over whether a settings screen shows users what an agent can actually read.
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Meta's Muse sent YouTuber Matt Robb's home address to every buyer who made an offer after he ticked 'allow always' instead of 'allow one time'. The cartoon mascots on Muse and OpenAI's Dots leave that risk where it was, in permission screens people click once and forget.
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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman calls AIs 'internally hollow' in a 5,700-word essay, after giving Copilot an animated mascot named Mico. For teams building assistants, the stronger case for designing them as tools comes from what agents such as Meta's Muse do with a user's private messages.
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Meta gives Muse read access to Messages, Mail and local files on a Mac, and its approval prompts fire only before actions such as sending a message. A columnist says the agent used notification text he never offered.
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