Preflight Checklist
Problem Statement
Cowork has a persistent option to choose access to local folders accessed by Cowork in previous sessions. In other words, visually, Cowork looks like it has access to folders after a restart. There is no way to revoke and purge access to folders that Cowork has access to on a user's machine. Disconnecting access to local folders when closing the application is not enough to technically and legally prove revocation.
Everyone in the world MUST have a button that PURGES folder/data access during runtime; a disconnect button. This is a critical UX AND legal best practice.
Otherwise, if true, users must shut the application to disconnect access to folders. This drives security experts bat s*&t crazy. This may satisfy people who are oblivious to privacy and security features; who don't care about privacy and security because they don't know any better or think they don't have anything to hide. There are more of these types of people in the world and it will surely attract expensive class action litigation, even though you may be able to prove that access is revoked upon shutdown. You still have to pay counsel to defend the case and the hit to your reputation could be existential. I am trying to help you here. Help ME help YOU.
Push a purge/disconnect feature across Cowork that proves to users that access to folders has, in fact, been revoked as soon as possible and tell counsel to push an update the terms and conditions to include "How Cowork accesses your data and how users can revoke access - https://claude.ai/revoke-data-access". Send the update to the privacy policy and user terms via email as soon as the commit is pushed. You'll need it as evidence in the motion for summary judgement of dismissal if/when the legal ambulance chasers file their class action. DO THIS NOW please. For both our sake.
"Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” - Edward Snowden
Proposed Solution
Push a purge/disconnect feature/button across Cowork that proves to users that access to folders has, in fact, been revoked as soon as possible and tell counsel to push an update the terms and conditions to include "How Cowork accesses your data and how users can revoke access - https://claude.ai/revoke-data-access". See mockup trash can and popup modal.
"Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” - Edward Snowden
Alternative Solutions
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Priority
Critical - Blocking my work
Feature Category
File operations
Use Case Example
See the attached images. Do I REALLY need to provide a use case for this? People are delegating their brains to AI. Most people will eventually lose them. If something bad happens, they call the lawyer first. Then the lawyer will look for other plaintiffs. This feature will keep Anthropic out of trouble. You guys do great work and are changing the world. Think of this as a "stay out of legal trouble" button.
Additional Context
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Preflight Checklist
Problem Statement
Cowork has a persistent option to choose access to local folders accessed by Cowork in previous sessions. In other words, visually, Cowork looks like it has access to folders after a restart. There is no way to revoke and purge access to folders that Cowork has access to on a user's machine. Disconnecting access to local folders when closing the application is not enough to technically and legally prove revocation.
Everyone in the world MUST have a button that PURGES folder/data access during runtime; a disconnect button. This is a critical UX AND legal best practice.
Otherwise, if true, users must shut the application to disconnect access to folders. This drives security experts bat s*&t crazy. This may satisfy people who are oblivious to privacy and security features; who don't care about privacy and security because they don't know any better or think they don't have anything to hide. There are more of these types of people in the world and it will surely attract expensive class action litigation, even though you may be able to prove that access is revoked upon shutdown. You still have to pay counsel to defend the case and the hit to your reputation could be existential. I am trying to help you here. Help ME help YOU.
Push a purge/disconnect feature across Cowork that proves to users that access to folders has, in fact, been revoked as soon as possible and tell counsel to push an update the terms and conditions to include "How Cowork accesses your data and how users can revoke access - https://claude.ai/revoke-data-access". Send the update to the privacy policy and user terms via email as soon as the commit is pushed. You'll need it as evidence in the motion for summary judgement of dismissal if/when the legal ambulance chasers file their class action. DO THIS NOW please. For both our sake.
"Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” - Edward Snowden
Proposed Solution
Push a purge/disconnect feature/button across Cowork that proves to users that access to folders has, in fact, been revoked as soon as possible and tell counsel to push an update the terms and conditions to include "How Cowork accesses your data and how users can revoke access - https://claude.ai/revoke-data-access". See mockup trash can and popup modal.
"Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” - Edward Snowden
Alternative Solutions
No response
Priority
Critical - Blocking my work
Feature Category
File operations
Use Case Example
See the attached images. Do I REALLY need to provide a use case for this? People are delegating their brains to AI. Most people will eventually lose them. If something bad happens, they call the lawyer first. Then the lawyer will look for other plaintiffs. This feature will keep Anthropic out of trouble. You guys do great work and are changing the world. Think of this as a "stay out of legal trouble" button.
Additional Context
No response