>This whole story never made sense or was substantiated
This story makes perfect sense, and Meta has a long history of not respecting user privacy controls.
> tech columnist Jason Aten said that Meta’s new general-purpose AI agent Muse sent him an unsolicited notification referencing a thread between him and a co-worker over Apple Messages. Aten said he never granted Muse permissions to read his messages and had assumed they were off-limits
>This whole story never made sense or was substantiated
This story makes perfect sense, and Meta has a long history of not respecting user privacy controls.
> tech columnist Jason Aten said that Meta’s new general-purpose AI agent Muse sent him an unsolicited notification referencing a thread between him and a co-worker over Apple Messages. Aten said he never granted Muse permissions to read his messages and had assumed they were off-limits
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/apple-changes-full-...