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.
