# 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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**Post date:** [Setembro 7, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admins-can-see-private-messages-in-users-profiles/19750/5 "2014-09-07T17:01:21Z")

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> [@AstonJ](#):
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> but it would be easy enough to look at PMs via the database anyway.

Not all admins have direct database access.

> [@illspirit](#):
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> This should be fixed,

Seconded. Or at least a toaster that warns that private messages are not _that_ private really and people shouldn’t post sensitive data there (with a “don’t show this again” checkbox, of course).

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