Google+ - Picassa Warnings

[justhuman]

I decided to link in my Picasa photos to my G+ account. Now this Picasa account is my fannish one, so there is nothing that I would want to hide. Still... exposure.

When I was linking my national park pictures on my LJ, I assumed a limited audience that would see my posts and follow my links. Also, some of the odder pics had context in my write ups. The galleries were public, so that someone looking from a search page would see a "random someone's" national park pics.

So if someone's looking at my G+, they're hit with all my public galleries, with or without context.

I played with logging in and logging out last night and you can limit the visibility in G+ of picasa pics by marking them as "share with anyone who has the link"

Then you can share the photos with a circle and keep them semi-private.

Now we reach the next level of privacy question, which is an existing privacy issue.

If I give a link on my LJ to a group of folks, they can repost the link.
If I share "with a link" picassa pics on G+, they can immediately re-share my pics.

This is the same security issue, but to me there is something about the ease and speed that this information will move using an easy button click verses someone creating a post.

Comments

[shiyiya]

My picasa photos got linked automatically, without so much as a by-your-leave, and there was a folder of pictures that had inexplicably been automatically put by blogger into 'recently updated' (anyone on the web) instead of in an autocreated album for the blog like it did with my other blog (which was set to 'anyone with the link').

So... pictures I didn't know were on picasa, that I certainly didn't know were *public* on picasa, put on plus as wide-open public without my knowing. :|