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LLM Agents Face Growing Privacy Risks from Data Acquisition and Autonomy

Recent research highlights significant privacy risks associated with LLM agents, particularly concerning how they acquire and handle user data. Studies indicate that while personalization is key to agent effectiveness, it often leads to increased privacy concerns and decreased user trust. New benchmarks and experimental designs are emerging to address these issues, focusing on agent autonomy, probabilistic privacy risk estimation, and auditing the data acquisition stage beyond just the agent's final output. These efforts aim to ensure that LLM agents can benefit users without compromising their sensitive information. AI

IMPACT Highlights the urgent need for robust privacy auditing and design principles for LLM agents to prevent sensitive data leakage.

RANK_REASON Multiple research papers published on arXiv discussing privacy concerns with LLM agents.

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LLM Agents Face Growing Privacy Risks from Data Acquisition and Autonomy

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhiping Zhang, Yi Evie Zhang, Freda Shi, Tianshi Li ·

    Autonomy Reshapes How Personalization Affects Privacy Concerns and Trust in LLM Agents

    arXiv:2510.04465v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM agents require personal information for personalization in order to effectively act on users' behalf, but this raises privacy concerns that can discourage data sharing, limiting both the autonomy levels at which agents…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Li Siyan, Zhou Yu, Julia Hirschberg ·

    Beyond Direct Identifiers: Probabilistic Privacy Risk Estimation for Privacy-Conscious LLM Query Delegation

    arXiv:2608.09140v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work on protecting privacy during user-LLM interactions often focuses on direct, explicit identifiers: the personally-identifiable information (PII) captured by standard detectors. One such approach is Privacy-Conscious Del…

  3. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Jiatong Li, Changdae Oh, Hyeong Kyu Choi, Jindong Wang, Sharon Li ·

    Thinking Is Not Telling: Information Disclosure in User-Service LLM Agents

    arXiv:2602.07796v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: User-engaged LLM agents increasingly operate in service scenarios where task success depends on coordination between the agent, the user, and a stateful environment. In such interactions, the agent often has access to task polic…

  4. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    PrivacyPeek: Auditing What LLM-Based Agents Acquire, Not Just What They Say

    LLM-based agents are rapidly advancing, autonomously invoking external tools to complete multi-step tasks for users. However, agents often acquire more sensitive information than the task requires. Existing privacy benchmarks audit what the agent's response or outgoing actions di…