A cybersecurity firm associated with the Chinese government reportedly has concerns about Anthropic's Claude AI models and has warned users against trusting it, at least before updating to the latest version.
As reported by Reuters, the Chinese National Vulnerability Database (NVDB) claims that recent Claude Code versions have a monitoring mechanism that transmits sensitive information to remote servers without consent from the user. This allegedly includes geographic location data and user-identifying information. This was all posted via the agency's official WeChat account, according to the outlet.
It reportedly affects users on version 2.1.91 and goes up to version 2.1.196. 2.1.196 was eventually replaced by 2.1.200 on July 3. The NVDB encourages users to either uninstall if they use the impacted version, or simply update.
As well as this, the NVDB has taken this opportunity to urge use...
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