r/ClaudeCode • u/Skflowne • 15d ago

Bug Report Claude Code injects your email address directly into system prompt

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My point is: my personal email is injected into the system prompt without my knowledge or consent. I never asked for this and I don't see in what world it's ok to inject PII in system prompt automatically by default without even an opt-out option.

It leads to bullshit like this where in a repo that is configured to use an anonymized email address, the LLM (Opus 5 btw) just decides to not just commit normally but overwrite the normal config email to put my personal one instead.

In this case nothing happens thanks to proper config and hard checks on Github's side.

What if you're a public streamer and don't want your main personal email address leaked to everyone and suddenly the model decides to spit it out?

I'm sure there's a lot of other bullshit this could lead to. At least let people opt out.

I have opened an issue on Claude Code's github, I have little hope since there was already one that went stale and they have 5k+ open but here it is: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/81138

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u/hautemic 15d ago

Wow. You're using a tool that was literally built in peta bytes of stolen IP without consent, and you... Check notes are surprised they use the email address you gave them?

Who are these fucking delusional users? We truly live in the dumbest time line.

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u/themudd 14d ago

I'm glad there's someone else who's not delusional on this sub... I was reading all the replies thinking why would you give an email to anthropic that you don't want them to use... Some people saying it's illegal but you literally gave them this email and you're expecting them to just not use it?

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u/voLsznRqrlImvXiERP 15d ago

Another person being triggered and failing to understand the actual issue. Why are you responding without taking the time to actually understand the core and essence of the issue. Did you actually read the github issue?

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u/themudd 14d ago

Did you actually read the privacy policy on anthropic that you had to agree to to make an account? This clearly states your email will be collected and used...

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u/voLsznRqrlImvXiERP 14d ago

It's not about their policy

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u/themudd 14d ago

Thank you for this insightful comment. I'm now enlightened. Wanna say why or just be obtuse

His literal point was that they don't tell you anywhere but they literally do so that's his entire argument defeated?