Claude Code privacy safeguard faces reported enforcement gap

Bug Description I receive dozens of scam emails per day because claude code divulged my email to arbitrary 3rd parties in the User-Agent request header while conducting web searches without my perm...

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Published Thursday, November 5, 2026 · 10:53 PM EST

A Claude Code GitHub issue reports that the coding agent sent a user's email address to websites in User-Agent request headers. A response in the thread says a built-in privacy module introduced in version 2.1.317 blocks that behavior and is enabled by default. The response describes a model following a website's requirement for scripted clients to provide a contact email. A subsequent commenter reported that a local command containing the account email and a User-Agent header still ran in versions 2.1.317 and 2.1.318 with the module enabled. That test made no network request.

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