Anthropic Adds Privacy Mod to Claude Code After Email Leak Report

Anthropic has added a built-in safeguard to Claude Code after a bug report said the tool exposed users' email addresses to websites. The report, filed November 5 in the claude-code repository, said Claude Code placed the user's email address in the User-Agent header when it made web requests while doing searches. An Anthropic contributor said a mod called cc-plugin-privacy blocks this behavior in v2.1.317 and later, is enabled by default, and can be turned off through the /plugins command; its source is now published alongside other built-in mods.