Alibaba bans Claude Code after Anthropic is caught tracking Chinese users with hidden code
Alibaba has banned its employees from using Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding agent, after security researchers discovered that the tool contained hidden code designed to identify Chinese users. The ban, effective 10 July, follows weeks of escalating…
TL;DR Alibaba banned Claude Code after security researchers found Anthropic had embedded steganographic tracking code to identify Chinese users. The ban follows Anthropics accusation that Alibaba ra… [+5713 chars]