Urban VPN Proxy Surreptitiously Intercepts AI Chats

Zusammenfassung

This is pretty scary: Urban VPN Proxy targets conversations across ten AI platforms: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok (xAI), Meta AI. For each platform, the extension includes a dedicated “executor” script designed to intercept and capture conversations. The harvesting is enabled by default through hardcoded flags in the extension’s configuration. There is no user-facing toggle to disable this. The only way to stop the data collection is to uninstall the extension entirely. […] The data collection operates independently of the VPN functionality. Whether the VPN is connected or not, the harvesting runs continuously in the background. […] What gets captured: Every prompt you send to the AI Conversation identifiers and timestamps Session metadata The specific AI platform and model used BoingBoing post. EDITED TO ADD (12/15): Two news articles.