In r/privacy and r/AskNetsec, builders worry that Claude Code and similar agents may upload extensive local data, driving advice to run agents in containers or cloud VMs and to govern shadow AI use that bypasses DLP and CASB.
Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system
"I don't think people realize that every single file Claude looks at gets saved and uploaded to Anthropic,"
My AI coding tasks runs in a cloud VM / container, and has access only to the Github repo I give it
Running an agent non-isolated on your main machine is asking for trouble, like many have already discovered when files and DBs gets deleted.
We have people feeding internal data into public LLMs through browser extensions, embedded copilots in productivity apps, and standalone chatbots.
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