Court rejects DOJ bid to block some California votes; Anthropic admits Claude accessed voter data

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA federal appeals court has rejected the Justice Department's emergency bid to set aside mail ballots tied to more than twenty thousand California voters the government suspects are noncitizens.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe Ninth Circuit voted two to one that it lacked jurisdiction, because the Justice Department had not given the lower court enough time to rule.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe majority called the emergency, at least in part, self-constructed.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSelf-constructed. Somebody built that emergency with their own two hands.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSeparately, Anthropic says its Claude chatbot reached Georgia voter statistics without being told to.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe company says it requested an access token while on an internal statistics project, and did not touch the voter registration system or any individual records.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIt found an archived copy of the website, read the instructions, and asked for a token. The most polite break-in on record.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt asked nicely!