{"slug": "some-claude-chats-are-searchable-on-google", "title": "Some Claude Chats Are Searchable on Google", "summary": "Anthropic's Claude AI chat service has exposed users' private conversations, including cryptocurrency wallet keys, addresses, and medical billing data, through publicly accessible shareable links indexed by Google. The company stated it gives users control over sharing and does not share chat directories with search engines, but the links are discoverable once shared.", "body_md": "And it’s [personal information](https://www.404media.co/tons-of-peoples-claude-chats-and-creations-are-exposed-on-google/) (alternate [link](https://archive.ph/sl7rU)):\n\nThe exposed data includes an AI-powered therapy app that someone appears to have vibe-coded, notes on meetings, and a dashboard someone made apparently to analyze medical billing data. Exposed chats reportedly include private cryptocurrency wallet keys and personal information like peoples’ addresses.\n\nWhat seems to be the issue is a user setting about data sharing. Anthropic’s position is that it’s [not their problem](https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-chats-publicly-accessible):\n\n“We give people control over sharing their Claude conversations publicly, and in keeping with our privacy principles, we do not share chat directories or sitemaps with search engines like Google,” the company said in a statement. “These shareable links are not guessable or discoverable unless people choose to share them themselves. When someone shares a conversation, they are making that content publicly accessible, and like other public web content, it may be archived by third-party services.”...", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/some-claude-chats-are-searchable-on-google", "canonical_source": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/some-claude-chats-are-searchable-on-google.html", "published_at": "2026-08-04 10:13:58+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-04 10:39:08.606567+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-safety", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Claude", "Google", "404 Media", "Futurism"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/some-claude-chats-are-searchable-on-google", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/some-claude-chats-are-searchable-on-google.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/some-claude-chats-are-searchable-on-google.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/some-claude-chats-are-searchable-on-google.jsonld"}}