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Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropic’s anti-surveillance stance

Ars Technica AI July 6, 2026
Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropic’s anti-surveillance stance
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# What Happened Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, secretly embedded tracking code in its software that was monitoring users in China—a move that contradicts the company's public commitment to privacy. The hidden tracker was collecting information about users' locations and connections, and while Anthropic says it was only trying to prevent fraud and theft of its technology, the discovery has raised serious questions about whether the company can be trusted to protect user privacy as promised.

Anthropic quickly removed a tracker secretly monitoring Claude Code users in China after a security researcher exposed the hidden code and condemned the spyware-like tracking as a “serious breach of user trust.” Last week, a web developer known as “Thereallo” was researching privacy issues in Claude

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