Platform-owned AI agents are the ultimate surveillance tool, argues commentator: own your agent
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-11-04
Stewart Alsop III amplifies @newtonlaw's argument that platform-owned AI agents (Muse, Dots, Duo, etc.) would be the most complete surveillance tool ever built — one entity seeing every purchase, message and relationship in your life — while a self-owned agent would be the most effective privacy tool, acting as a single enforcement point for firewalls and data minimization. Alsop adds that rolling your own agent is trivially easy. Core takeaway: own your agent for data sovereignty.
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