According to Beating AI, the privacy page on the ego lite website states that it collects data such as visited URLs, page content, click scrolling, search and download history, which contradicts the product's claim of local operation. ego subsequently responded that these descriptions do not apply to ego lite, and that its privacy policy uses the general terms prepared for the full ego, failing to clearly distinguish between the two products.
Ego and Ego Lite are two separate products. The full version of Ego is not yet officially launched; it plans to integrate an officially managed cloud agent, thus involving web page content, search, and browsing operations during task execution. Ego Lite, on the other hand, is a local browser for AI agents such as Codex and Claude Code, and does not provide an officially managed agent itself.
The official statement claims that ego lite does not collect or upload the aforementioned browsing data. Web page content is read by the user's own agent, while browser data remains on the user's local machine.