Amid Concerns About AI Agents Running Amok, Apple Restricts Full Disk Access

<p>AI agents are more widely used than ever before, but a good chunk of consumers <a href="https://www.braze.com/press-releases/the-2026-braze-customer-engagement-review-ai-innovation-meets-the-trust-plateau" target="_blank" title="(Opens in a new tab)">still have fears</a> about giving them too much responsibility and access to their personal data. Apple is now set to roll out an update that could potentially reduce some of the risk on macOS.</p><p>Going forward, <a href="https://developer.apple.com/news/" target="_blank" title="(Opens in a new tab)">Apple will introduce</a> "additional controls" that will require Mac users to take "very explicit user action" to enable Full Disk Access. Developers are using it in ways that could put users at risk by "exposing everything on their systems" without their knowledge and understanding, including their files, mail, messages, and browsing history.</p><p>This comes after a journalist from Inc. <a href="https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/metas-new-muse-ai-agent-read-my-private-messages-i-never-asked-it-to/91408202" target="_blank" title="(Opens in a new tab)">alleged</a> last month that Meta's Muse agent had accessed confidential data and messages stored on his Mac without his permission.