- Profiles built on people who never installed Muse, WhatsApp or any Meta product.
- Data reaches Meta via another user’s connected messages, email, photos and calendars.
- Walsh says this can expose health, political and religious details, plus confidential sources.
- Encryption is bypassed at the device level: Muse reads chats before encryption or after decryption.
- Columnist Jason Aten found 187,000 iMessage rows synced after he says he declined access.
- Meta’s David Singleton called Muse’s false explanation for that “on us”.
- YouTuber Matt Robb’s Muse shared his home address with a Facebook Marketplace buyer.
- Researcher Patrick Wardle’s 21 September Mac zero-day was patched on 22 September.
- Meta says private conversations and VM data are not shared with its advertising services.
- Users can wipe memories, disconnect services and review an activity log.
- The promised Confidential VM, encrypted with a key only the user holds, is not yet generally available.
- Walsh discloses he is building a WhatsApp alternative with retired veteran Johan Mackie.
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