Thursday, 1 October, 2026
Meta Denies Muse Accessed Private Messages Without Permission, Citing Multiple macOS Safeguards
By TechShots Studio
Meta disputes a journalist’s claim that its Muse AI agent accessed private iMessages without permission. Meta says Muse’s Messages integration is entirely opt-in and requires users to enable Full Disk Access and the Messages connector. The journalist says Full Disk Access was disabled when Muse surfaced message content. Meta maintains that Muse’s explanation involving notification syncing was incorrect and says the reported behavior could not occur under its permission system.
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