# Claude Code reportedly sends users' email addresses to websites

A Hacker News post reports that Anthropic's Claude Code, an AI coding tool, transmits the user's email address to websites it accesses. The apparent privacy leak could expose identifying information to third-party sites and raises questions about data handling in AI developer tools.

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## Sources

### Technology
- [Hacker News](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/107757) — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 22:17:15 +0000