…Alexander Hanff, a privacy consultant and occasional contributor to The Register, contends this makes Claude Desktop "spyware" and amounts to a violation of European privacy law. "I want to be blunt," Hanff…
…Anthropic is using Persona, a privacy checker that rings alarm bells for the paranoids on Reddit Anthropic may check your ID before letting you access certain Claude features, and the verification vendor…
…But an analysis of its code shows that the agent can exercise far more control over people's computers than even the most clear-eyed reader of contractual terms might suspect. It…