How to keep your Claude chats and Google files private

Some ‘private’ chats and docs are showing up on search engines. Here’s how to protect yours Users of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot were surprised over the weekend to learn that some of their conversations may be discoverable on search engines like Google and Bing. The revelation is raising questions about how much control people actually have over what they share online. Anthropic allows Claude users to create public links to their chat threads, which gives anyone with the link the ability to view their conversations – similar to sharing options on apps like Google Docs. But what users may not have realized was that means their Claude conversations, however sensitive or personal, could show up in public search results. As of Tuesday morning, no Claude chats appeared in Google or Bing in searches that reportedly previously surfaced them. Still, the discovery has forced users of chatbots like Claude and other online services to confront some important questions: what does it mean to make your chats shareable? When are your personal files public for all to see? And what can you do about it? The uproar over Claude chats showing up in search results began on Sunday, after Reddit users disc