Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission

Meta denies a journalist's claim that its Muse AI on macOS read private Messages without user consent; the company says reading Messages requires explicit, multi-step Full Disk Access and Messages connector permissions that cannot be bypassed. The article highlights user suspicion given Meta's past privacy issues, references another reported mishandling incident, and notes Meta is investigating and pointing to its security architecture and bug bounty process.