[microtonal]

Like they now hand over all your contacts, your location, calendar entries, microphone access, camera access. If you choose to do so.

Nothing holds them from having designed this as an API that others can use where the user has permission toggles of what data they want to share with the LLM provider.

[nomel]

This is clearly very different from usual permissions and access.

This would be unprecedented access to user data, enabling the most complete user profiling ever.

Ad companies, like Meta and Google, are going to spend huge amounts of money getting agents ready, because there will be a ridiculous amount of money behind all the data they're going slurp up, and the profiles they'll build for you.

Unless, Apple can figure out how to keep the leaches, that have consistently proven to be so, with court cases for receipts, at bay.

[necovek]

Interestingly, they claim to have done this and offer it as an API layer (Trusted System Agent) for other agents to use.

There is just this minor point that their own agent simply doesn't use it and goes directly to lower level interfaces nobody else gets access to: exactly the thing DMA was designed to stop.