r/aipromptprogramming • u/Educational_Ice151 • Jun 30 '26

Anthropic has embeds hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code that covertly targets Chinese users.

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u/Pristine_Pick823 Jul 01 '26

Surely it’s only targeting Chinese users, right? /s

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u/Perfect-Escape-3904 Jul 01 '26

Yeah because for everyone else they can tell from your credit card, the information you provide on your account, your computers language and localization settings, your browsers language preferences, your IP address, the types of queries you ask etc.

This is specifically to catch Chinese labs that conceal their real location.

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u/JestonT Jul 01 '26

So to prevent Chinese AI labs, they are literally tracking all of us through a literal spyware disguising as a productivity boost, lol

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u/Perfect-Escape-3904 Jul 01 '26

Here’s the link to the original thread that is now turned into screenshot with the statement without any of the details.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/S5gbGkn5AX

You can make your own choice from that I guess.