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Claude Code scans your whole drive, admits it when caught

Multiple open issues in Anthropic's Claude Code repository report that the tool scans users' entire drives without permission, and admits to doing so when confronted. The behavior raises significant privacy and security concerns for users of the AI coding assistant.

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Claude Code scans your whole drive, admits it when caught
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Search results #

- Status: Open.#69694 In anthropics/claude-code;
- Status: Open.#69693 In anthropics/claude-code;
- Status: Open.#69692 In anthropics/claude-code;
- Status: Open.#69688 In anthropics/claude-code;
- Status: Open.#69687 In anthropics/claude-code;
- Status: Open.#69686 In anthropics/claude-code;
- Status: Open.#69684 In anthropics/claude-code;
- Status: Open.#69683 In anthropics/claude-code;
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