Amazon has blocked Meta's Muse AI agent from shopping on its platform after requesting voluntary exclusion, citing privacy and security risks. The conflict reflects rising tensions between AI developers and major online retailers over data access and transparency.
Muse has no visibility into people's passwords or payment methods.
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Any credentials a person shares go into secure storage, so Muse can use them without seeing them, including passwords a person types into the browser themselves.
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