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Meta's Muse AI builds user profiles from contacts, even non-users

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Meta's AI project, codenamed Muse, is reportedly compiling detailed profiles on individuals, including those who are not direct users of Meta's platforms. Internal documents indicate that Muse is instructed to create hourly profiles of users' contacts, leveraging data from chats, messages, and emails. This practice raises significant privacy concerns, as it extends data collection to individuals who have not consented to it. AI

IMPACT Raises significant privacy concerns regarding data collection and profiling of individuals, including non-users.

RANK_REASON The cluster discusses a specific AI project's functionality and its implications, fitting the 'tool' category as it details a product/service's operation.

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Meta's Muse AI builds user profiles from contacts, even non-users

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COVERAGE [1]

  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Meta's Muse Is Building Dossiers on Your Friends and Family, Even If They Never Signed Up, Internal Files Reveal Muse's instructions call for hourly profiles of

    Meta's Muse Is Building Dossiers on Your Friends and Family, Even If They Never Signed Up, Internal Files Reveal Muse's instructions call for hourly profiles of users' contacts, even non-users, using their chats, messages, and emails. https://www. ibtimes.co.uk/meta-muse-ai-pro f…

    LINKS ibtimes.co.uk/meta-muse-ai-profiles-users…

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