So don't run for office or anything like that. Someone, somewhere will have a contact that will get that.
Then, you can write anything in an EULA but it is not automatically legal either.
This is spying with extra steps couched in corporate speak.
Frustrations about Anthropic’s EULA are a separate matter.
Presumably, Anthropic did the spying and the reporting.
You argued that it is not spying, since the spying may have been made sufficiently explicit in the ToS/EULA.
This raises the question: Does announcing a spying operation mean that it is no longer spying? I've never heard that perspective before.
Well, kind of, yeah; the dictionary definition of spying requires secrecy and lack of consent.
> to secretly collect and report information about the activities of another country or organization[0]
The only real debate is whether or not having a clause tucked away in a EULA that few people read makes it a secret. If Anthropic had a big flashing red banner that said "FYI we automatically flag and review any conversations about illegal things!!" on the front page nobody would call it spying.
[0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/spying
A less central case would be when you clearly do know about the activity but you can't quite see the details, like with behavioral ad targeting or something. It feels pretty normal to me to call that spying even if it's disclosed to everyone and certainly happens to everyone, but it's also a less central example of the concept.
You can call it anything you like, but only the legal definitions matter for the legal case.
If you change the situation then yes you can in fact change our responses. The problem is you then are no longer talking about the original situation.
It also bears mentioning that providing a dictionary link to “spying” is pretty patronizing/passive aggressive. On par with sending a basic Wikipedia page. You didn’t even bother to post the definition you want to apply.
You don’t need to presume. Anthropic reported it.
“Spying” as a legal concept has a definition that does not apply here. You could say they were “spying” in the sense that they read someone’s input, but that’s literally what they said they were going to do in the agreement when the person signed up.
So I responded to the question about the case being thrown out for “spying” by trying to show that the word doesn’t apply in the legal sense. If you sign up for a service that says “Hey we’re going to monitor your chats and might report things to the authorities” and then they monitor your chats and report things to the authorities, you should not expect the case to be thrown out for “spying”.
Calling something names doesn't invalidate it. It only invalidates what point you're trying to make.
They get friendly and loose-lipped with the bartender over the span of months. Eventually they let slip that they plan on killing their spouse for a life insurance payout. At first the bartender thinks they're joking, but it becomes evident that there's an actual plan being acted upon and someone's life is very likely in imminent danger.
Does the bartender have a responsibility to go to the police?