Google Workshop Report Maps Agentic Privacy and Security Open Problems with 50+ Experts
dl_weekly · x · 2026-10-15
Google Research released a workshop report, "Open and Emergent Problems in Agentic Privacy and Security: A Contextual Angle," stemming from its Contextual Agent Privacy and Security (CAPS) Workshop held in late 2025 in New York City with 50+ academic and industry leaders.
Key points:
- The core agentic trade-off: usefulness requires access to personal data and the ability to take consequential actions, which combined with behavioral flexibility creates novel privacy/security risks.
- The report uses Contextual Integrity as a framing theory: agents must understand and be constrained by contextual behavioral norms to act appropriately on users' behalf.
- It outlines foundational challenges and open research directions across system, model, user, and ecosystem levels, calling for coordinated defenses.
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