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Privacy concerns about new clean profile URLs

Zim [PersonRank 10]

Friday, April 17, 2009
15 years ago2,288 views

Recently, Google enabled us to choose between a cryptic profile URL or http://www.google.com/profiles/[google username]. This is interesting, because it's easier to remember a profile by its associated username.
But as mentioned in the article below, it may attract spam to users' inbox:
http://www.labnol.org/internet/email/gmail-address-in-google-profile/8219/
I'd like to pick a better profile URL, because I don't like my actual GMail address, but I can't.
Why I can't choose at least other of my nicknames/usernames that appear in my google account? (like my YouTube username)

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

This is not a privacy issue only, this includes a security risk too.

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Juha-Matti, other than the user potentially being spammed with phishing emails, what's the security risk?

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

A good question to add, the point was to say that if e-mail address is found privacy is not being breached :)

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