(a) There are friends with various levels of permission. Certain fields on the profile can be set to be visible only to certain groups of contacts. (b) Upon no

(a) There are friends with various levels of permission. Certain fields on the profile can be set to be visible only to certain groups of contacts. (b) Upon noting (a), I filled out a private profile in anticipation that Google would be rolling out further mechanisms to share private profiles with certain contact groups.