UK data watchdog 'looking into' Google+ mission creep

[raelynne]

UK data watchdog 'looking into' Google+ mission creep

Exclusive Blighty's Information Commissioner's Office is currently "looking into" Google's recent ID verification rejig, The Register has learned.

I'll be looking for the results of this with interest. The UK and European courts have been previously successful in standing up to Big IT Business, so I'm hopeful they can do it again.

Comments

[xenacryst]

To reply to myself, I asked on my RL G+ stream, and someone who's actually been at Google answered and said that private profiles are NOT the equivalent of setting your G+ profile to not be searchable. Private profiles completely predate G+ and are something else. I don't know if there is currently a way to set a profile to private in such a way as to trigger the upcoming purge.