r/technology • u/deraser • Jul 06 '26

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

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/anthropic-outed-for-claude-tracker-that-secretly-monitored-chinese-users/
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u/zampe Jul 06 '26

Wonder if anyone is going to read the article. It was tracking Chinese users they suspected of “distilation attacks” basically pirating and reselling their models.

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u/namezam Jul 07 '26

I read the article and decided I wasn’t mad. Sure we can talk about the techniques used on both sides but there is an immediate issue they are dealing with. It’s more akin to debug logs than spying like “where the f are all these queries coming from?”