Apple to Tighten Mac Data Controls in Guard Against AI Agents
THE SO WHAT
Apple is signaling that AI agents are a qualitatively different risk class—“full disk access” will become harder to grant and easier to audit. If you ship Mac software with agent-like behavior, plan now for new permission flows, user education, and potentially degraded capabilities if you can’t justify broad access.
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