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Apple says it is changing its macOS privacy settings to stop third-party app developers from misusing them to access message histories.<\/p>\n

Friday’s announcement<\/a> comes two weeks after tech columnist Jason Aten said<\/a> that Meta\u2019s new general-purpose AI agent Muse sent him an unsolicited notification referencing a thread between him and a co-worker over Apple Messages. Aten said he never granted Muse permissions to read his messages and had assumed they were off-limits. Social media last week blew up with masses of people who agreed and said the incident showed that AI assistants given access to calendars, emails, messages, shopping accounts, and other resources are akin to a skill saw or other power tool. While potentially useful, they can do real damage if not used carefully.<\/p>\n

He said\/she said<\/h2>\n

Meta CTO David Singleton joined the fray<\/a> with a rebuttal that appeared solid. For Muse to access Apple Messages, a user must manually give it two privileges. One is full-disk access, a macOS system-level permission. The other is to enable a Messages connector setting in Muse.<\/p>\n

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