When You Share Claude Chats, You Might Be Sharing Them With Everyone
It turns out Claude may not be the best confidant (well, at least if you’re not careful with your privacy settings). Over the weekend, we got yet another reminder that conversations with chatbots are not guaranteed to stay within the chat box. And because people are not always all that careful about what they put into Claude or other chatbots, these indexed conversations include some pretty personal information.
- ▪It turns out Claude may not be the best confidant (well, at least if you’re not careful with your privacy settings).
- ▪Over the weekend, we got yet another reminder that conversations with chatbots are not guaranteed to stay within the chat box.
- ▪And because people are not always all that careful about what they put into Claude or other chatbots, these indexed conversations include some pretty personal information.
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| Canonical URL | https://gizmodo.com/when-you-share-claude-chats-you-could-be-sharing-them-with-everyone-2000791372 |
| Publication time | Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:20:43 +0000 |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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It turns out Claude may not be the best confidant (well, at least if you’re not careful with your privacy settings). Over the weekend, we got yet another reminder that conversations with chatbots are not guaranteed to stay within the chat box. Some users on Twitter and Reddit showed that conversations with Anthropic’s Claude can be crawled and made searchable on Google, essentially readable by anyone who comes across…
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