Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
THE SO WHAT
Consumer agents that build shadow profiles of your social graph turn 'who controls the data exhaust' into the central strategic question. Any team deploying assistants in messaging or workplace tools needs an explicit stance on secondary profiling, retention, and opt-out before regulators write it for them.
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