{"id":1040727,"date":"2026-10-05T08:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T02:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040727"},"modified":"2026-10-05T08:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T02:37:15","slug":"apple-to-tighten-mac-data-controls-in-guard-against-ai-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/05\/apple-to-tighten-mac-data-controls-in-guard-against-ai-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple to tighten Mac data controls in guard against AI agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc. said it plans to introduce new privacy controls for Mac users, warning of the growing risks around granting broad data access to third-party software, including artificial intelligence agents. <\/p>\n<p>The iPhone maker will introduce additional controls to ensure that users who want to grant an app \u201cFull Disk Access\u201d \u2014 meaning full access to their system files, mail, messages and browsing history \u2014 can only do so \u201cwith very explicit user action,\u201d it said in a statement Friday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to ensuring users clearly understand these risks before granting such access, so they can make informed decisions about their own data and privacy,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc. said it plans to introduce new privacy controls for Mac users, warning of the growing risks around granting broad data access to third-party software, including artificial intelligence agents. The iPhone maker will introduce additional controls to ensure that users who want to grant an app \u201cFull Disk Access\u201d \u2014 meaning full access to their system files, mail, messages and browsing history \u2014 can only do so \u201cwith very explicit user action,\u201d it said in a statement Friday. \u201cWe are committed to ensuring users clearly understand these risks before granting such access, so they can make informed decisions about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040732,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040727\/revisions\/1040732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}