Muse, the AI agent from Facebook parent company Meta, is now available as a native iPad app and unfortunately, some people are going to download it.

If you need to read any further than the words Meta or Facebook, this is the situation:

Meta Muse is an AI agent you can tell not to read your private information, but of course it will anyway.

On macOS, this is why Apple is changing how users can allow apps to access everything on the Mac. Amazon has blocked Muse from buying anything on its platform.

Now it's on the iPad — link if you really must — although so far only in the US. It's the same with the iPhone version, which has already gathered 173,000 ratings.

Those ratings average out at 4.9 stars. Although one praising review includes the line that "no way all this should be free," which just tells you people never learn.

It's not as if they haven't had any warning that Meta wants private information. Apple has singled out the company for using EU regulations to request access to far more personal detail than its services ever require, for instance.

Or there's how Facebook renamed itself Meta since even it knew the original name was tainted. Facebook is the firm that sold Cambridge Analytica access to the data of around 87 million users, and got fined $725 million over it.

Cambridge Analytica went bust, but Facebook/Meta continues. More recently, Meta launched what it calls Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses and everyone else calls "pervert glasses."

Meta does have an online privacy statement that of course leans heavily on how it won't do anything without your permission. But then it has a page on how Muse works, and there it says "no automated system is perfect," before adding that "you're responsible for fixing errors."

Maybe you don't have a problem with a corporation saying it's up to you to correct problems. Perhaps you're not concerned about your personal data being gathered and sold.

If that's because you think it's just your name and maybe your date of birth, look what happened when Apple stepped in with App Tracking Transparency. Facebook had to tell investors that its revenues were going to be down $10 billion for the year, just because of that one move.

Meta profits heavily from what it learns about you, which is why it can be free.

But then even if you're not concerned about Meta making a fast buck as long as it's providing you with a service, take a look at what else Muse is doing. Through your contacts and messages, it is harvesting data about everyone you ever deal with.

Ask them if their privacy is worth your being able to have Muse automatically reschedule a meeting for you.