Googe Image Search vs. Geni Security / Privacy

Started by Private User on Monday, March 26, 2012
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Private User
3/26/2012 at 4:59 PM

From what I have read in a few places - folks using google image search can get around most of Geni's privacy / security. For example, if they saved your image from next to a comment in a Public Discussion or when it came up in a search, uploaded that into google image search - they were then shown your Profile Page as your Family would see it -- not the view Geni shows to non-connected Geni members.

Google Image Search seems to require a membership, and given all that is going on with Google vis a vis privacy, so far I am avoiding. Does anybody have such an account, and is this still a problem?

3/29/2012 at 1:02 PM

I don't think that's true, Lois. Google has no idea what a private profile page looks like to family members, because we don't ever show that to Google's crawler.

Private User
3/29/2012 at 1:50 PM

Just remember that Geni does not have static web pages, - if you find a profile using google search and click on the result link - what you see of details depends on your own access to Geni when you click on the link, not Google's access. Try to log out first and see the big difference.

Private User
3/29/2012 at 2:36 PM

Had seen several comments in very short order, so started worrying. Cannot find the very explicit comment I saw in Public Discussions (guessing it was deleted - was guessing possibly because they felt too dangerous, but could have been because they realized was artifact of being logged in to Geni) . Did find this example in Help : http://help.geni.com/entries/21181336-breach-of-data-protection-can...

After reading Mike's response, it did occur to me it might at least in part (or in whole) be due to being logged in to Geni. Bjorn - do you want to suggest that to the poster of that Help Comment, see if that solves their problem/is any way reassuring to them?

Have now been playing with images.google.com - trying both logged in, logged out of Geni - then discovered differed if in IE7 vs. firefox, so still more exploring to do. It is definitely a sort of interesting way of finding info on folks in Geni.

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