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Position: Privacy Is Not Just Memorization!
Niloofar Mireshghallah, Tianshi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01645 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01645

Position: Privacy Is Not Just Memorization!
The discourse on privacy risks in Large Language Models (LLMs) has disproportionately focused on verbatim memorization of training data, while a constellation of more immediate and scalable privacy threats remain underexplored. This position paper argues that the privacy landscape of LLM systems extends far beyond training data extraction, encompassing risks from data collection practices, inference-time context leakage, autonomous agent capabilities, and the democratization of surveillance thr…