A shared link is not a private link

Subject: A shared link is not a private link

Preview: Claude conversations published through share links appeared in search results.

Claude conversations made accessible through the sharing feature appeared in Google and Bing search results. Some reportedly contained sensitive information. The cases reviewed did not involve conversations that had never been shared.

The feature created a public URL containing a snapshot of the conversation. Some users treated the link as though only intended recipients could see it, while search engines were able to index it and make it discoverable.

AI assistants concentrate code, contract summaries, personal data and internal thinking. One sharing action can turn a workspace into a publication, even when the user never intended broad distribution.

This was not a general exposure of every private chat. The problem is the ambiguity of public sharing and the mistaken belief that a hard-to-guess URL remains confidential.

Audit existing public links, revoke those no longer needed and prohibit sharing secrets, keys, customer data and internal documents. For enterprise use, apply data loss prevention rules and a clear policy for public links.

Anyone with the link can forward it; a search engine may then make it visible to everyone.