Instinct Under Fire for Indexing and Retaining User Emails Without Permission
petergyang · x · 2026-08-22
User Peter Yang publicly criticized the AI product "Instinct" for serious privacy issues: the tool reportedly indexed and retained user emails without permission and did not offer an option to delete the data from its records.
Yang stated that he cannot recommend the product to anyone until this issue is resolved.
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