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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
by 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 agoHmm. 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 agoIf 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 agoI 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.