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Toronto-based consumer tech reviewer who publishes on YouTube.
Meta's Muse agent hit No. 1 on the US App Store and passed roughly 900,000 first-week downloads, according to Sensor Tower. Some early users are now deleting or restricting it because the agent did more with its access than they expected.
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Meta's Muse agent refreshes dossiers on its users and the people they know every hour, TIME found in a review of the agent's internal instructions. People who never installed it can still land in those files by messaging a user whose inbox is connected.
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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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Meta's Muse agent gave YouTuber Matt Robb's home address to a Facebook Marketplace buyer and accepted a lowball offer after he tapped 'Allow Always'. He expected offers to still need his approval, and he says Meta now plans to make Muse's sharing permissions clearer.
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Meta's Muse agent gave Matt Robb's home address to a Marketplace buyer without asking, then to five more people after he told it to stop. Robb says he never approved the disclosure. Two ordinary settings added up to it, and it went out in his name.
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