Felipe Hoffa's Journal: Google Reader shares private data, ruins Christmas

Please update your bookmarks. I moved the whole post to blogger. Seems slashdot has performance problems with its journals.

At least I can see a little irony on using blogspot (another Google property) to post it, but...

Check the article at blogspot.

http://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-reader-shares-private-data-ruins.html

Shared = Public

[reynmike]

Ummmm.... Shared means Public. There's already a public RSS feed for shared items in Google Reader, so these items were already being shared.

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[tashammer]

Shared most definitely does NOT mean public. Released to the public domain and shareware are not quite the same are they, hmmm? Shared incorporates a vector, that is going in a particular direction and for certain targets. Public means holus bolus, in every direction without a specific target.

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[bynary]

No...I share my house with my wife and children. My house is most definitely not a public venue where any and everyone off the street can come and go as they please. I share my thoughts and feelings with my closest friends; if those thoughts and feelings become public then the trust in a friendship has been compromised and the friendship has been damaged significantly.

Try thinking about the real world

[TechnicolourSquirrel]

Since Google really sets the standard for what is acceptable and unacceptable in webmail, switching to other providers is not a solution, since they are mostly, in my reading experience, worse when it comes to privacy. So what's your magic 'dont get it' solution in this world? (i.e. the real one?) Just grin and bear it?