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		theoretical on May 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1 Database Containing 35,000,000 Google Profiles. ... I contacted Google about this issue in November of 2008 - I only received an automated response. (Matthijs mentioned that was why he posted the previous post[1] on the topic prematurely) Perhaps with the increasing awareness of this issue, Google will be forced to act. [1] http://blog.cyberwar.nl/2011/05/google-profiles-exposes-mill...

tonfa on May 25, 2011 [–]

Why act, they make great effort to explain that the data is public. You can even chose if you want to be indexable (search visibility).

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