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Claude Code accused of injecting user email into website prompts
Original: Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites
A claim circulating among developers alleges that Claude Code, Anthropic's coding assistant, includes the user's email address in prompts and that this data can end up being sent to websites during web requests. If true, it would raise privacy concerns about what personal information coding tools pass along without users' knowledge. Commenters are discussing how the email gets into the prompt and what the privacy implications are.
Why now: Privacy concerns over an AI coding tool allegedly leaking users' email addresses to external websites
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