Shadow IT came out into the open: managers photographing blocked corporate screens to feed personal Claude accounts.

A data analyst at a company where AI is fully blocked asked r/ClaudeAI whether to pay out of pocket, describing what they observe as normal practice: colleagues including people in management photographing their work screens with personal tablets and phones, sending images to Claude for analysis and deck-building. The 71-comment thread splits cleanly, with the top position arguing this risks the job and creates legal exposure, and an equally upvoted faction arguing shadow IT is already rampant because the productivity delta is too large and policy is too slow. The camera-as-airgap-bypass detail is the concrete artifact. DLP and network blocks don't cover a phone pointed at a monitor.