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false sense of security...
Many average users thinks that "personal" and "private" and "protected" amount to roughly the same thing, especially online. Thus, their *personal* profiles on facebook MUST be private, and as such have some protection from abuse... and with that line of reasoning, they feel perfectly safe announcing everything online, and facebook asks for all these details, encouraging all of it to be posted.

Google at least brings up the idea of privacy every time you go to post a status update on Plus, and they don't hide the ways they use your data... they acknowledge stuff which facebook tries to sweep under the carpet.

Oh, and google hasn't fouled up their privacy management so royally that *any user* could access your details without your consent (Facebook has had occurances of this).

If google repeats the mistakes facebook has made regarding privacy and data protection, I'm sure anonymous will target them, too.
Posted by shryko
11th Aug 2011