Private trees in GENI seem not to be private for MyHeritage

Hello fellow curators,

Ther are more and more Private trees in GENI. Their profiles of the deceased are identified as duplicates and thus candidates for merging. However when we come to performing the merge, we are advised "we must have the owner's permission".

I have a tree in MyHeritage constructed mainly from GENI but fed also by matchs with others in MYHeritage

To-day, I was working on it in MyHeritage and came upon some interesting profiles available FROM GENI.

I was so interested in some data that I went into GENI to find the owner and realized it was a PRIVATE GENI tree.

No problem, I'll express my interest to him in either merging with the owner's permission his tree into the World tree or simply ask if the particular photos could be made available to me ? Which I did and am awaiting his reply just as we did in GENI all the time in the early days.

Still, why do private trees in GENI become not so private for MyHeritage ?

So I looked again at the "managed Files" of Privacy and Permissions section of account settings that I consulted earlier to-day to share in GENI with only my closest relatives, my father's military records.

I remembered noting that even if the tree is private in GENI that the private tree owner must uncheck the "Include profiles I manage in MyHeritage SuperSearch" to preclude those profiles from being available to all who use SuperSearch ?

Otherwise once picked up by interested MyHeritage tree owners, all private GENI trees can quickly be shared with others in Myheritage and picked up by Smart Matchs in GENI.

I remember field sensitivity was fundamental back 20 years ago. In the meantime I think I'll just have to uncheck it too ... to keep what is private from becoming public ... especially in the pubs of Google, MyHeritage/GENI.

PLEASE correct me if I'm in left field.