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The android app seems to expose email addresses in profiles where the web app does not. Including, according to one acquaintance, an email address that he asso

The android app seems to expose email addresses in profiles where the web app does not. Including, according to one acquaintance, an email address that he associated with his google account purely for emergency recovery purposes.

tonfa 15y ago
Maybe you should report it to Google, in case they are not aware (via the feedback button). You could also raise the issue to a community manager: https://plus.google.com/109895887909967698705 https://plus.google.com/109895887909967698705
- waterlesscloud 15y ago
  I don't bother reporting anything to Google anymore. At one time I'd send feedback on whatever minor issues I found in their products, but I never got any response from them at all so I stopped. I like Plus overall, as FriendFeed 2.0 if nothing else. I hope they can fix these sorts of issues quickly.
  - tonfa 15y ago
    From what I have seen, the Plus beta is quite different in term of handling the feedback. (e.g. community managers getting involved in discussions, etc.)
  - deadcyclo 15y ago
    So you signed up for community testing a product, and you don't bother to report problems? That just seems wrong to me (but I know, it's probably a rather common thing to do). That sort of seems like modifying FOSS and not bothering to contribute back your modifications to the original product because "from experience most FOSS projects don't bother about my code". (And yes, many FOSS licenses require you to provide your code if you distribute. They don't, however, actually compel you to actually submit it to the original project.) In my eyes, it's about common courtesy: If you sign up for testing a product, you report your findings. That said, I'm not saying you have to, I'm just saying that by providing your feedback, specially when they actively are seeking it, you might help create a better product.
    - waterlesscloud 15y ago
      Common courtesy would have been Google responding to my numerous attempts at feedback on previous products.
callahad 15y ago
UPDATE: False alarm, at least in the case below. It turns out that the mobile views (web or native) merge in information from your Google address book, but the normal web interface does not. Weird. Oh. Wow. It's not just the android app, the mobile web interface does this too. And it's not just email addresses, but the full "About" section of the profile as far as I can tell. Take my friend Alice, for instance. In the Web UI, I only see that she's a student and identifies as female. On the mobile site, I see her email address, her Google Talk address, the fact that she's online, her mobile phone number, and her home address.
- waterlesscloud 15y ago
  Hmm. That would make sense, though not entirely desirable. But I'm seeing an email for my friend that I've never used for him, that I didn't even know he had. What's odd now is that he's updated his profile and his droid phone doesn't show the other addresses and mine still does. So maybe it is address book based, somehow. Edit- Pretty sure the persistence after he deleted them from his profile is the address book, but also verified the one address isn't in my book. He must have exposed it on his profile without meaning to?
- georgemcbay 15y ago
  If the mobile app/site are merging that information in from your own local contact information (which I would bet is what is happening here), who cares? It is just showing you information about Alice that you already have on your phone due to previous contact syncing.
  - waterlesscloud 15y ago
    I think what this is going to turn out to be in the end is a case of people not realizing what was already being shared via google's account profile in the contact info.

tonfa 15y ago

Maybe you should report it to Google, in case they are not aware (via the feedback button). You could also raise the issue to a community manager: https://plus.google.com/109895887909967698705 https://plus.google.com/109895887909967698705

waterlesscloud 15y ago
I don't bother reporting anything to Google anymore. At one time I'd send feedback on whatever minor issues I found in their products, but I never got any response from them at all so I stopped. I like Plus overall, as FriendFeed 2.0 if nothing else. I hope they can fix these sorts of issues quickly.
- tonfa 15y ago
  From what I have seen, the Plus beta is quite different in term of handling the feedback. (e.g. community managers getting involved in discussions, etc.)
- deadcyclo 15y ago
  So you signed up for community testing a product, and you don't bother to report problems? That just seems wrong to me (but I know, it's probably a rather common thing to do). That sort of seems like modifying FOSS and not bothering to contribute back your modifications to the original product because "from experience most FOSS projects don't bother about my code". (And yes, many FOSS licenses require you to provide your code if you distribute. They don't, however, actually compel you to actually submit it to the original project.) In my eyes, it's about common courtesy: If you sign up for testing a product, you report your findings. That said, I'm not saying you have to, I'm just saying that by providing your feedback, specially when they actively are seeking it, you might help create a better product.
  - waterlesscloud 15y ago
    Common courtesy would have been Google responding to my numerous attempts at feedback on previous products.

callahad 15y ago

UPDATE: False alarm, at least in the case below. It turns out that the mobile views (web or native) merge in information from your Google address book, but the normal web interface does not. Weird. Oh. Wow. It's not just the android app, the mobile web interface does this too. And it's not just email addresses, but the full "About" section of the profile as far as I can tell. Take my friend Alice, for instance. In the Web UI, I only see that she's a student and identifies as female. On the mobile site, I see her email address, her Google Talk address, the fact that she's online, her mobile phone number, and her home address.

waterlesscloud 15y ago
Hmm. That would make sense, though not entirely desirable. But I'm seeing an email for my friend that I've never used for him, that I didn't even know he had. What's odd now is that he's updated his profile and his droid phone doesn't show the other addresses and mine still does. So maybe it is address book based, somehow. Edit- Pretty sure the persistence after he deleted them from his profile is the address book, but also verified the one address isn't in my book. He must have exposed it on his profile without meaning to?
georgemcbay 15y ago
If the mobile app/site are merging that information in from your own local contact information (which I would bet is what is happening here), who cares? It is just showing you information about Alice that you already have on your phone due to previous contact syncing.
- waterlesscloud 15y ago
  I think what this is going to turn out to be in the end is a case of people not realizing what was already being shared via google's account profile in the contact info.