For privacy and security, think twice before granting AI access to your personal data

This piece critiques the growing trend of AI-powered apps and assistants demanding expansive permissions to users’ accounts and devices—such as access to emails, calendars, contacts, and photos—highlighting Perplexity’s Comet browser as a key example and noting similar practices by other companies. It warns that granting such access poses serious, often irreversible privacy and security risks, and questions whether the convenience offered justifies the data exposure.