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Ask HN: Is it smart to put your personal info on a Google form?
I'm curious. Is it safe to do a registration though google forms for a small-time club which has legit professional reasons to gather your personal information. I know I can contact them directly and ask for alternatives. I am sure this would be a hassle for them. Yet it's putting all my credentials out on somebody's else's account. I don't know even if the information will be encrypted. The alternative would be emailing them directly and that's the same thing?
- helph67 5y agoMy opinion is that you are better to deal with organisations that guarantee your privacy and Google is not your friend.
- OOvsuOO 5y agoI agree, in opinion. Does anyone have any evidence to support this opinion? Specifically regarding sending sensitive information over google forms?
- stevenalowe 5y agoIt’s fine - the form connection is secure as is the backend storage.
- tedmiston 5y ago> Yet it's putting all my credentials out on somebody's else's account. I definitely would not put credentials into a Google Form. The results are plaintext...
- muzani 5y agoIt's roughly similar to email afaik, if not safer. It'll probably get extracted to some document. At least with Google forms the extraction is manual, giving less places to leak.