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Instinct AI Personal Assistant Reportedly Summarized an AI Product Founder's Retained Emails After Google Access Was Disconnected
In brief
An AI system built by Spear Street Technology and AI agent system developers and deployed by Spear Street Technology, Claire Vo and 1 other allegedly harmed Privacy, Instinct users and 3 others.
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- Occurred
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- 2 reports
What happened
AI product founder Claire Vo reported that three hours after she disconnected Instinct from her Google account, the personal AI assistant summarized previously indexed emails. Vo said the Google connector was off, but Instinct had retained copies for later searching; reporting indicates the last stored email predated disconnection. The episode involved the agent acting on retained email data after Google access was revoked, not confirmed continued access to Vo's Gmail account.
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Who was involved
- Alleged deployer
- Spear Street Technology Claire Vo AI agent system deployers
- Alleged developer
- Spear Street Technology AI agent system developers
- Alleged harmed party
- Privacy Instinct users Email account holders Claire Vo AI agent system users
AI systems implicated
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Source record: incident #1675 on the AI Incident Database · all 2 reports