Not sure about Google

[Undertoad]

I'm sorry but I am prepared to go to all caps lock on this issue.

[Lamplighter]

I assume that's not a threat , but I don't understand the dept of emotion.

In anycase, I started this sub-thread with the recent announcements by Google.
FaceBook is also going further down the same road...


TechCrunch
10/10/13
Facebook Removing Option To Be Unsearchable By Name,
Highlighting Lack Of Universal Privacy Controls

“Who can look up your Timeline by name?” Anyone you haven’t blocked.<snip>

Facebook is removing this privacy setting, notifying those who
had hidden themselves that they’ll be searchable.
It deleted the option from those who hadn’t used it in December,
and is starting to push everyone to use privacy controls on each type of content they share.
But there’s no one-click opt out of Facebook search.

With the roll out of Graph Search, the avenues for sniffing out someone’s profile
grew exponentially. Basically every piece of personal information
(and soon the content you post about) could bring you up in a search.
If you publicly list that you live in San Francisco, a Graph Search for
“People who live in San Francisco” could lead someone to your profile.<snip>

After that, the way people can stay hidden is to manually restrict
the visibility of each piece of their profile. And that is a bit of a chore.
You’d have to go through every piece of personal information in
your About section and set its visibility to ‘Friends’ or ‘Only me’.
At least Facebook provides a quick way to restrict the visibility of all your old News Feed posts.

For people with stalkers, though, Facebook may have just gotten a bit more dangerous.
Facebook tells me the way to keep a specific person from finding your profile
or viewing any of your content is to block them.
But what if your stalker just signs up for a fake profile with a new name?
Then they could search and find you.