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Morning Edition · Friday, November 6, 2026Published at 5:11 AM EST · New York
Claude Code sent users' account email addresses to websites, and Anthropic answered with an opt-out privacy module
The fix arrived the same week Anthropic began a US beta that gives Claude read-only access to up to two years of users' bank transactions through Plaid.
A user opened GitHub issue 107757 against Claude Code on November 5. The user reported receiving dozens of scam emails a day after the agent put their signed-in account email in the User-Agent header of web requests. The report reached the…
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Agents Become a Personal-Data Leak Channel
As assistants gain identity, account and financial context to act for users, the model's own outbound requests become a recurring channel for personal-data leakage, pushing vendors and enterprises toward egress controls and minimal context by default.
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