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Craig Hale

ByteDance AI tool Trae caught spying on users

ByteDance.
  • Data continues to go back to Chinese servers even with telemetry off
  • Hardware and OS specs, mouse/keyboard activity and more
  • Trae memory usage is 3x higher than Cursor

A developer has taken to GitHub to warn that ByteDance's Trae AI-powered IDE has been collecting data from users and sending it to the Chinese company's servers.

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