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Governments are turning to Claude to automate spying

Axios·September 10, 2026·1 min read
Governments are turning to Claude to automate spying

Anthropic's threat report says state-run surveillance operations in Mali, China, and Iran are using Claude to automate spying. A Mali consultant built a system to collect mobile data and build dossiers; Iranian actors used Claude for a malicious Firefox extension; a Chinese religious affairs office reduced analysts to one AI-assisted office.

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