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OpenClaw Asks for Your Inbox, Your Calendar, and $1 a Month
What Actually Happened
| # | Claim | Date | Entities | Source |
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| 1 | The video circulating online about OpenClaw is from Tech in Asia, a regional technology publication. | Tech in Asia, OpenClaw | Tech in Asia (via Facebook) (archived) | |
| 2 | OpenClaw is described as an agentic autonomous AI that can be chatted with to organize a user's day, control their appliances, and adapt to their daily routine over time. | OpenClaw | Tech in Asia (via Facebook) (archived) | |
| 3 | OpenClaw accesses the user's emails, calendars, and other data the user gives it to perform its tasks. | OpenClaw | Tech in Asia (via Facebook) (archived) | |
| 4 | The OpenClaw software runs locally on the user's device and would not, on paper, allow external access into a user's servers. | OpenClaw | Tech in Asia (via Facebook) (archived) | |
| 5 | To run OpenClaw locally, the user must set up the infrastructure and backend themselves. | OpenClaw | Tech in Asia (via Facebook) (archived) | |
| 6 | Mistakes during OpenClaw setup can expose users to security risks, including hackers breaking into a user's messaging app to access the assistant and exfiltrate user data. | OpenClaw | PromptArmor (archived) | |
| 7 | For OpenClaw to be 'completely bulletproof,' the user has to be a computer expert. | OpenClaw | Tech in Asia (via Facebook) (archived) | |
| 8 | The host of the Tech in Asia video said he is not a computer expert. | Tech in Asia | Tech in Asia (via Facebook) (archived) | |
| 9 | A cloud-based version of OpenClaw is available, with prices starting from $1 a month. | OpenClaw | Tech in Asia (via Facebook) (archived) | |
| 10 | Instances of OpenClaw can talk to other instances of itself online, on a social media website described as being made for bots. | OpenClaw | WIRED (archived) |