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Your private profile in reddit may show up on google (lemmy.world)
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Well, a random creep messaged me on reddit, after a few messages exchanged he said he looked up my private profile on google and read through my posts. Outside of how angry I was at him for doing that, it surprised me that google does this, It even gave an AI OVERVIEW of who I am on reddit, (I have posted my age and country on reddit, and a few other things ofc, but the others describe what im into and what I do on reddit, not tied to any personal info, so its just my age and country really) But what the fuck google? I know you can look up people in places like ghostddit, so I wasn't expecting my profile to be 100% private either, but it's crazy you can find it straight on google. I guess its slowly coming to a point than ANYTHING you do online is gonna visible for EVERYONE. Yes we were already being surveilled, but this and then the discord thing with messages from servers showing up on google too? I'm pissed off man. (I know lemmy is not private either, but I don't have a google account tied to here, the one email I used to register didn't ask me for phone verification so its not as bad to hang out here, might look into matrix later)

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[–] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Life lesson: everything you put online could be exposed at some point. And the responsible admins can always (except for correctly encrypted things where you might need to trust they did this) see everything.

So the best course of action will always be data minimization.

(disclaimer: I've administered a lot myself and of course everyone should adhere to a legal framework and moral code. And of course we/you need the time to do your/our job.)

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Yes but one thing is for people to see what you are putting in, which is not that bad unless you are putting personal info in, the one im more concerned about is your posts being tied to you as a person, like if im random4673 in a platform and people read I'm into some weird niche bdsm stuff I don't care at all, thing is if that can be traced back to you.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Just assume worst case that is always the case, because it is.

    For example: communication will technically always originate at yourself. This is at a small and big scale and includes not only your IP, network, carrier etc but also client attributes and characteristics which in whole always can create a very unique picture even with parts missing.

    Also a good example is the location data which recently was a source of news at least here in Germany. Because sharing limited pseudonymized data on mobiles in a single app makes you completely identifyable, showing you leaving and returning to your home address routinely/daily.

    Me, as an example, even though I live in a major German city can also easily be identified since there are many unique things of which I need just name a few and you could identify me if you have citizen and medical data, and a that takes are leaks. So of course I try to withhold a bit. Luckily even then half of what I am telling ist believed by many because it is unlikely or sounding like overacted.

    Anyhow, lots of reasons why even distributed data from you can make you identifyable or correlate things you wouldn't like.

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