@matthew@social.retroedge.tech
Post #2466094
2026-04-22 13:03 UTC
Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
Detailed blog post by Alexander Hanff
If I have my bank open in a tab, the bridge’s documented capabilities include reading it as me. If I have Tax, or my Health portal, or a client’s Slack, or an admin console to production infrastructure, the documented capabilities include acting as me there.
What Anthropic chooses to do next matters. A company cannot credibly claim to support human rights, as Anthropic have done in arguing against the use of their technology for war, and in the next breath undermine the fundamental human rights to privacy and data protection.
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/
#privacy #AI #Anthropic #claude #DarkPatterns #SpyWare
Replies (3)
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@jeff@mk.magicka.org 2026-04-22 19:37
@matthew@social.retroedge.tech AI company caught collecting training data, more news at 11
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@h4890@merovingian.club 2026-04-22 22:09
@matthew@social.retroedge.tech Anyone who uncritically gives AI.s, regardless of company, access to bank, tax, and clients, deserves everything that happens. Expected and unexpected. Same goes for people who trust online password managers.
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@Zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith 2026-04-23 03:39
@matthew@social.retroedge.tech Anthropic overtly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop