35 Million Google Profiles Collected

Orome1 writes "If you are one of those individuals that made their own Google Profile, chances are that you knew and agreed to the fact that the information you included in it will be available for anyone who searches for it online. But, maybe you haven't thought about the possibility of this information being harvested and indexed in order to make mining of it easier. Whether you have or not, it is ultimately irrelevant — you have shared the information with Google, and it does not forbid the indexing of the list."

Comments

does this mean that strangers will visit at home?

[alen]

because i made sure my profile was complete with my address and everything since everyone on the internets is friends and cool

Petition

[Kamiza Ikioi]

Let's get a petition together to get Google to put up a robots.txt on Google so that Google can't Google Google.

Re:does this mean that strangers will visit at hom

[Anonymous Coward]

Holy shit, dude! I just found out about this thing where the phone company (those evil fuckers) put your address in this large book with white pages. It even has your name and phone number too. How will we ever survive in this modern world where we have all these totally new privacy issues that have never come up before?

Let 'em harvest...

[fyngyrz]

This is my google profile:

Introduction

At first I was just two cells, one of which won an informal swimming competition. Then, a blastula. Then an embryo, a fetus, a baby, a really, really annoying child with a guitar, a totally out of control teenager with several guitars and amplifiers, a reformed young adult, an engineer, then finally, I matured into the sexual tyrannosaurus that I am today. Tomorrow, however, I may be senile, not to mention that whole sexual thing depending on drugs. Possibly there will be drugging to avoid depends, too. If you need more information, you're advised to ask me soon, before I forget entirely who I am. Wait, what was the question?

Occupation

      Pondering

Employment

        I ponder conundrums

Previous employers

      Many

Education

        University of Life
        Ph.D in Hard Knocks
        Masters of Reality
        Bachelors in Dating
        Associates in Matters of Degree
        Honorary "Get off my Lawn" with "Or I'll Shoot" cluster