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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Johana Bhuiyan

How to keep your Claude chats and Google files private

A hand holds a smartphone displaying the Claude app with the greeting 'How can I help you this afternoon?'
Users of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot got a surprise over the weekend. Photograph: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images

Users of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot were surprised over the weekend to learn that some of their conversations may be discoverable on search engines like Google and Bing. The revelation is raising questions about how much control people actually have over what they share online.

Anthropic allows Claude users to create public links to their chat threads, which gives anyone with the link the ability to view their conversations – similar to sharing options on apps like Google Docs. But what users may not have realized was that means their Claude conversations, however sensitive or personal, could show up in public search results.

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