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- § 01 · AI-AGENTS
Who Lets a Personal AI Agent In? Meta Muse, US Banks and Retailers, and the Pre-Research Behind China's Agent Data-Processing Standard
A full translation. 网安寻路人 opens a series, written with the core drafting group of the national standard Security Requirements for Data Processing by AI Agents (智能体数据处理安全要求), now being drafted, which shares the standard's preliminary research. The first installment is a case study, not a Chinese rule. It follows how US banks and retailers responded after Meta launched its personal agent Muse on September 8, 2026 and passed 10 million users in about six weeks. Amazon, JPMorgan, Schwab, and Morgan Stanley blocked or restricted outside agents, while Walmart, Shopify, and Best Buy opened controlled gateways. The author traces two fault lines. The first is identity, overreach, and liability: agents logging in with customers' credentials leave platforms unable to tell the customer, a mistaken agent, and an impostor apart. The second is control of shopping entry points and profit pools, from Amazon's roughly $70 billion ad business to banks' low-cost deposits. The industry's answer is moving from 'silent agents' toward verifiable agent identity (KYA), scoped credentials, read-only interfaces, and human approval for high-risk acts. With the original's seven charts, its timeline, its ten-row comparison of institutional policies, and its 26 notes.