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Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2026
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It's called stalking, a crime even in the USA, Selling the home adress is not only an privacy issue, but a big security risk.
Property records are public in most areas of the US. Same with a ton of other records. These get scraped from government websites by data brokers, or shadey scraper companies that sell to data brokers. Then you just pay the data broker to search and get the info just like a google search.
So meta having this info and giving it out is not really surprising. What surprises me is they’re giving it out for free, but I guess not really because the user is paying to use their AI. 🤷
In a country where anybody has a weapon and where they always shot at the wrong people
Remember when every house had a big, thick book, provided for free by the phone company, with everyone's phone number and address in it? Different times.
Yes different times, . Public in the Phone book, but as result sometimes only an flyer in your mail box and not of cause the phone book, but random. With phones tied to an cable, privacy issues are not a theme. If they don't know your name or your city, the phone book isn't usefull, less when there are several with the same name, Sara Connor.
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