Quote from: McMurdo on November 30, 2019, 06:53:48 PM

Obviously that can't steel your coins with that, just wondering if there a some negative privacy effects to them having that public key before you ever spend those coins to the network and reveal the public key.

Yes, your funds are safe and there is no risk regarding your privacy as all they can do with your public key they can already do it with your public address.
Your privacy may be at risk only when your xPUB key is disclosed.
By knowing your extended public key, an attacker can extract all your wallet public keys. Hence, he will be able to know about all transactions you make from that wallet and how much bitcoins you have on it.