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Re:Google Co-Founders on Healthcare: “Thanks, But No Thanks” by pinaceae on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @08:39PM (#8012994)
didn't G+ out some transgender people? http://www.zdnet.com/google-outed-me-7000025416/

now imagine the same with Google having access to all medical records.

regulation around this exists for a very, very good reason.

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Re:Google Co-Founders on Healthcare: “Thanks, But No Thanks” by gohrt on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @09:04PM (#8013055)
By "outed", G+ exposed the user's public name to someone, connecting two public pieces of the user's data, that the user intended to keep separate.

It was a poor UI experience, but it wasn't a private-data leak.

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Re:Google Co-Founders on Healthcare: “Thanks, But No Thanks” by dontmindifido on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @10:18PM (#8013247)
You're kidding yourself if you don't think that is a private data leak.
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Re:Google Co-Founders on Healthcare: “Thanks, But No Thanks” by stormbrew on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @10:13PM (#8013231)
Connections aren't data?
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