Amid AI Agent Fears, Apple Restricts Full Disk Access
AI agents are becoming much more widely used than ever before, but a good chunk of consumers still have fears about giving agents too much responsibility and access to their personal data. Apple is now set to roll out an update that could potentially reduce some of the risk of giving an AI agent full access to your device.The update comes after a journalist from Inc. alleged last month that Meta’s Muse agent had accessed confidential data and messages stored on his Mac without his permission. However, these claims have been so far denied by some Meta executives, with Meta’s VP of communications Andy Stone saying that the journalist must have enabled “Full Disk Access and the Messages connector for Muse” to read his messages.
- ▪AI agents are becoming much more widely used than ever before, but a good chunk of consumers still have fears about giving agents too much responsibility and access to their personal data.
- ▪Apple is now set to roll out an update that could potentially reduce some of the risk of giving an AI agent full access to your device.The update comes after a journalist from Inc. alleged last month that Meta’s Muse agent had accessed conf
- ▪However, these claims have been so far denied by some Meta executives, with Meta’s VP of communications Andy Stone saying that the journalist must have enabled “Full Disk Access and the Messages connector for Muse” to read his messages.
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AI agents are becoming much more widely used than ever before, but a good chunk of consumers still have fears about giving agents too much responsibility and access to their personal data. Apple is now set to roll out an update that could potentially reduce some of the risk of giving an AI agent full access to your device.The update comes after a journalist from Inc. alleged last month that Meta’s Muse agent had accessed confidential data and messages stored on his Mac without his permission. However, these claims have been so far denied by some Meta executives, with Meta’s VP of communications Andy Stone saying that the journalist must have enabled “Full Disk Access and the Messages connector for Muse” to read his messages.
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