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"The subset of my contacts that clicked "yes" became exposed to the public." Not on your profile. "Didn't Google make the public profile for me" It didn't. I
by carbon8 17y ago
"The subset of my contacts that clicked "yes" became exposed to the public."
Not on your profile.
"Didn't Google make the public profile for me"
It didn't. If you never set up a google profile or a buzz profile, Buzz displays a placeholder profile to your contacts with the sentence "This person does not have a public profile." where the name usually is. If you had a Google Profile, your contacts are shown a placeholder profile with your name and a link to your Google profile.
Certainly in the latter case and maybe the former, your following/follower lists are displayed to you on your placeholder buzz profile, but these are not displayed to anyone else looking at the profile.
- altano 17y agoAlthough I don't remember creating a profile, I wouldn't rule it out, so I'll take your word for it. This was all much less terrible than I thought. If no private data was exposed, this was mostly just an inconvenience rather than a horrible breach of privacy, which I'm glad to hear. Thanks for clarifying!
- altano 17y agoSo turns out you're totally wrong. I just went to the settings page to kill Buzz completely now that they've added the ability, and the default option is worded as such: "Show the list of people I'm following and the list of people following me on my public Google profile Learn more" So that list of followers (people who simply didn't read the splash page and blindly picked "yes") WERE exposed to the public.