This is mostly a collection of links to other articles, many of which have already been discussed recently and extensively on HN.

It’s interesting that the only ads I’ve seen for Muse don’t mention meta at all.

And it's all by design, Meta and its founder have a long history of releasing products with security "flaws" that are immediately used by them to collect vast amounts of information about their victims.

Again? This seems very intentional at this point

I get the appeal of agents, I do. This is the future stuff we always wanted. But I cannot get myself to give one of these things access to my bank account or allow it to do price comparsion and shopping without oversight. Or access to my email or chat history.

I just do not trust any of them, not with my money or with access to my conversations.

Oh Meta not giving a damn about privacy and security? Say it ain't so.