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Agents That Know Too Much: A Data-Centric Survey of Privacy in LLM Agents

Large language model agents increasingly query databases, search document collections, call external APIs, remember past interactions, and act on a user's behalf. As they move from answering questions to operating over sensitive data, privacy becomes harder to enforce. An agent touches many data sources, runs multi-step workflows, keeps state across sessions, and acts with delegated permissions. Sensitive information can therefore leak not only through its final answer but through the queries it

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Published: 25 June 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Privacy · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (25 June 2026), “Agents That Know Too Much: A Data-Centric Survey of Privacy in LLM Agents,” evidence record 583, https://ethics.ai/record/583 (originally published by arXiv).

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