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arXiv cs.CLPaper3d ago

When Agents Talk, Secrets Travel: Topology-Driven Leakage and Recipient-Conditioned Sanitization in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

This identifies a real gap in conventional privacy models: you can authorize one agent to see sensitive data, but if that agent coordinates with others, the secret travels. RECONS fixes this by conditioning sanitization on recipient and topology rather than just data sensitivity. If you're deploying multi-agent systems with heterogeneous access controls, you probably aren't thinking about this yet. Test your topologies before you have a breach.

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arXiv cs.AIPaper22d ago

PrivDrift: Auditing User-Secret Leakage Under Topic Drift in Active LLM Conversations

This is a materialized risk for anyone building persistent assistants or shared-session systems. The finding is clear: topic drift does not reliably erase secrets, and leakage varies significantly by model. For builders: audit your deployment with this benchmark before your users disclose financial data or medical history in a shared session. For security teams: this is a harder problem than clearing context and needs architectural solutions, not prompt engineering.

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Google DeepMindArticle23d ago

Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory

On-device reasoning with encrypted state is solving a real problem for users who want agent continuity without server-side logging. This sits at the intersection of performance and privacy, both of which matter for enterprise adoption. For builders: if your customers have strong data retention concerns, this makes edge deployment more viable. It's not a sea change, but it fills a gap.

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