Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites
by tpmoney on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:48PM
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Oh come on, data leaks (even unintentional ones) have been a part of our collective industry since about the time the first two computers were connected together. Whole industries exist to put together profiles of you based on data that deterministic applications that you installed and choose to use send with or without your knowledge all day long.
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Re:Claude Code sends your email address to websites
by sojournerc on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:09PM
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Sure, but companies would typically take responsibility for the leak, and the bug could be fixable in a deterministic system.
Here we get a half apology and a reason, but the passive voice, "we let this happen" is telling. The apology isn't for the bug, but the inability to manage their own system.
> I'm sorry we let this happen. Users had reported Claude would hallucinate names for things like @author tags, since it didn't have context on the account. So we added the account email in the model's context for signed-in users.