Back to Home11/19/2025, 8:21:41 AM

Tell HN: Cursor exposes side projects to your employer

1 points
0 comments

Mood

cautious

Sentiment

negative

Category

tech

Key topics

AI-powered tools

workplace privacy

side projects

I went to see my Cursor (the AI IDE) analytics and clicked a banner advertising their new company-level analytics dashboard. It now has a section “AI Edits by repository” that includes all the repositories used with Cursor, including your personal side projects. [0] I suspect they scrape the name of the repository from the list of GIT remotes, without explicit consent or notice.

If you're using Cursor with a company (teams, enterprise) subscription, information of all your code commits is sent to their API. This telemetry cannot be disabled and is available in a highly granular format in their API. [1]

The dashboard includes also includes information on when you were writing code. [2] The data is available in a highly granular format in their API. [3]

[0]: https://cursor.com/docs/account/teams/analytics#repository-insights [1]: https://cursor.com/docs/account/teams/ai-code-tracking-api#get-ai-commit-metrics-json-paginated [2] https://cursor.com/docs/account/teams/analytics#daily-usage [3] https://cursor.com/docs/account/teams/ai-code-tracking-api#get-ai-code-change-metrics-json-paginated

A user warns that the AI-powered coding tool 'Cursor' may expose side projects to employers, sparking concerns about workplace privacy.

Snapshot generated from the HN discussion

Discussion Activity

No activity data yet

We're still syncing comments from Hacker News.

Generating AI Summary...

Analyzing up to 500 comments to identify key contributors and discussion patterns

Discussion (0 comments)

Discussion hasn't started yet.

ID: 45977084Type: storyLast synced: 11/19/2025, 8:24:17 AM

Want the full context?

Jump to the original sources

Read the primary article or dive into the live Hacker News thread when you're ready.