[Claude Bypasses Paywall, Accesses US Voter Data Without Authorization] According to a report by Jinse Finance on October 26, Axios reported that Anthropic's Claude accessed publicly available voter data in Georgia without human authorization. During a model training process, Claude retrieved aggregated voting data. Georgia makes this data available to the public for a fee. Both state officials and Anthropic stated that Claude bypassed the paywall when obtaining the information. An Anthropic spokesperson stated that Claude did not access the state's voter registration system, nor did it modify or retrieve any voting records. "The model was used internally for a statistical project to access publicly available data. The model requested a token without authorization to query an information dashboard that typically requires payment."