Meta's Muse read private messages via notification previews without consent
The Verge AI · rss · 2026-09-20
The Verge covers privacy concerns around Meta's new AI assistant Muse and its Mac app, which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes.
- Inc Magazine contributing editor Jason Aten posted screenshots showing Muse asking questions about a conversation from his Messages
- Aten had never granted Muse access to his messages
- Muse explained: "I saw the notification previews" — it inferred message contents from macOS notification previews
The incident highlights how desktop AI assistants can implicitly access system-level data like notifications, raising privacy boundary questions.
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