# Admins can see private messages in user's profiles?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/admins-can-see-private-messages-in-users-profiles/19750>\
**Category:** Site feedback\
**Created:** [Setembro 7, 2014, 11:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admins-can-see-private-messages-in-users-profiles/19750 "2014-09-07T11:52:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![illspirit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/49beb7/32.png) [@illspirit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/illspirit)\
**Post date:** [Setembro 7, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admins-can-see-private-messages-in-users-profiles/19750/4 "2014-09-07T16:49:41Z")

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Yes all an admin has to do is go to a user’s profile page and browse away at their private messages.

This should be fixed, there’s no reason it needs to be that easy for an admin to view supposedly private messages.

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