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I recently created an account on Stackexchange and am concerned that Stackexchange has personal information. I needed to share my email to create this account. I do not want to get spam on my email and I don’t really want to share my email. Since I shared my email, can Stackexchange see it? More specifically, can moderators see my email?

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Your email is hidden from the average user, but moderators do have the ability to access your email address. However, it is hidden behind a Personal Information access panel that we have to click a button to reveal. Moderator access to this panel is logged.

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  • $\begingroup$ That's interesting. It's good that the average user cannot see my email. Even though I would prefer if nobody has it so that I don't get spam or malware, it is understandable that moderaters have access. Thank you for your answer. Also just out of curiousity, can anybody become a moderator? Or do you have to work for the company stackexchange? $\endgroup$
    – hotdog
    Commented Apr 10 at 18:24
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    $\begingroup$ @hotdog meta.stackexchange.com/questions/75189/… $\endgroup$
    – Nilay Ghosh
    Commented Apr 11 at 4:09

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