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Researcher links 16,000 scans of a UN statistics portal to OpenAI agents
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Siliconangle
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Sept. 27, 2026, 10:34 p.m.
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An independent researcher has detected over 16,000 scans of a UN statistics portal presumably linked to OpenAI agents that used proxies to circumvent restrictions on data access. This raises questions about ethical data utilization in AI systems.
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