Your Shared Claude Chats Were Showing Up on Google: What Happened and How to Check Your Claude Privacy
In late July 2026, Claude’s public share links were missing a working noindex instruction, so Google and Bing began indexing shared conversations — some with highly sensitive data. Anthropic added the missing tags and Google started removing results by July 26. Nothing was hacked; this was a consent-and-configuration failure, and the fix on your side is to review and revoke your shared links.