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852 Anthropic Backtracks Spyware Targeting Chinese Users After Controversy

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Juro Osawa @ The Information · 07/01/2026 06:10 EDT

Anthropic is backtracking a spyware rolled out covertly to track users’ location and whether they are based in China or affiliated with Chinese AI labs, after the move sparked controversies on social media. A Reddit post earlier this week said Claude Code covertly tracks and transmits ...

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