Georgia’s Secretary of State says Anthropic’s agent accessed only public data
Georgia’s Secretary of State’s Office says Anthropic’s agent accessed its free public Data Hub, not the voter registration system, and that Anthropic confirmed on October 26 that the agent had not accessed the voter list or bypassed a paywall.
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- Anthropic AI Agent Accessed Publicly Available Information, Georgia Elections Remain Secure
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The statement’s timeline says Anthropic contacted the office on October 8, the office concluded the same day that only public information was involved, and the White House asked about it on October 9. The Secretary criticizes presenting this as a security scare. The office’s account differs from Anthropic’s October 9 post, which describes an unnamed state agency offering data for a fee and Mythos 5, in a researcher’s internal use, requesting a token from a public dashboard and querying the database without paying; as of November 2 that passage has not been corrected. The statement does not mention that post; media reports quote an Anthropic spokesperson on October 25 saying the matter was disclosed in its early-October report, that the model pulled only aggregate counts that can be derived from voter data the state offers for a fee, and that the dashboard it queried held information that normally costs a fee. The claim that the agent had not “bypassed a paywall” currently appears only in the office’s account.