{
  "id": 12444474,
  "title": "Meta’s Muse Is Spying on All Your Friends and Family",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/metas-muse-is-spying-on-all-your-friends-and-family",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-06T18:59:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Futurism",
    "slug": "futurism",
    "url": "https://futurism.com/future-society/meta-muse-surveillance-privacy-friends-family"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Meta's new AI agent Muse appears charming but conceals a massive surveillance apparatus, revealing a significant drawback in the service. Initially praised for its usefulness, Muse raises concerns as researchers scrutinize its inner workings. Wired reports that the AI agent gathers extensive data on individuals connected to its users, updating profiles hourly and maintaining a \"page for every person in the user's life.\" According to AI safety researcher Karan Joshi, the goal is to deeply understand users' relationships with real people, which he deems \"pretty creepy.\" This revelation follows Meta engineers' discovery of a critical vulnerability that could grant unauthorized access to the Meta database. A hastily assembled fix was implemented prior to Muse's launch, with one insider expressing concerns about potential data breaches. While the extent to which Muse's internal \"friends and family\" files might have been integrated into this database remains unclear, the presence of these files underscores severe safety and privacy risks for both the user and their acquaintances.",
  "summary": "\"They're trying to know you like a friend, which is honestly pretty creepy.\" The post Meta’s Muse Is Spying on All Your Friends and Family appeared first on Futurism .",
  "key_points": [
    "Meta's Muse AI agent gathers extensive data on users' friends and family.",
    "AI safety researcher deems Muse's relationship tracking with real people \"pretty creepy.\"",
    "Critical vulnerability discovered, leading to a fix before Muse's launch."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}