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This is actually quite dangerous. You can use GData to load the document retrieve all contributors and authors. You can also retrieve the viewers using a cronj

This is actually quite dangerous. You can use GData to load the document retrieve all contributors and authors. You can also retrieve the viewers using a cronjob. GData returns a "Person" objects in 3.0 http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/javadoc/com/google/gdata/data/Person.html http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/javadoc/com/google/gdata/d... and when you know that google docs generates a revision for just clicking around you can retrieve all revisions and email addresses using http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/javadoc/com/google/gdata/data/docs/RevisionEntry.html http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/javadoc/com/google/gdata/d... Anyway, it is a great idea... but really not a good idea to use a google doc :-)

thesethings 17y ago
I dunno. I visited the Doc knowing it was in Googlelandia, and before I edited anything, I knew it was logged. I feel privacy data is most dangerous when triangulated from multiples services/tools. It's good to be concerned, but if anything, entering your data here is a far more open book than submitting to any other site that asks these questions.
po 17y ago
So by quite dangerous you mean that anyone can find out that you've looked at and/or edited that page. Definitely a privacy issue for many people, but I'm not sure I would qualify it as quite dangerous.