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

L2 · PractitionerIndustry & BusinessThe Verge AI$· 10/15/2026

Warns practitioners about data privacy risks when using AI assistants that collect information from contacts.

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Meta's Muse AI assistant raises privacy concerns by collecting extensive user data including friends' information without their consent.

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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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