Hrm. That article has a little blurb that I've seen elsewhere, but not seen expanded:
The company's product veep Bradley Horowitz responded to recent criticism levelled against Google's identity verification tweaks, which in the next few days will lead to the mass deletion of private profiles for the firm's products.
(emphasis mine)
This worries me. If this is what it says it is, my RL profile is going to get deleted, because I made it private - not searchable, and many of the fields locked down to viewable only by me. Does anyone know if I'm interpreting this incorrectly? I sure hope I am, because it makes no sense for Google to offer up the ability to keep one's profile private and then retaliate against that by summarily deleting all private profiles.
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Date: 2011-07-27 02:54 pm (UTC)(emphasis mine)
This worries me. If this is what it says it is, my RL profile is going to get deleted, because I made it private - not searchable, and many of the fields locked down to viewable only by me. Does anyone know if I'm interpreting this incorrectly? I sure hope I am, because it makes no sense for Google to offer up the ability to keep one's profile private and then retaliate against that by summarily deleting all private profiles.