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Provide Privacy on What's New Feed

Submitted by galesbury on March 9, 2009 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

EVERY What's new feed is available in search engines, it is impossible to make your What's New feed private.

I don't want my What's new feed to be public - even if the items within it are not public, it is still not a private account because you can find all my activcities in search engines. FAIL

Make the What's New private

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Discussion (4 comments)

.Chris wrote on March 9, 2009, 8:02pm

There are a lot of Jonathan's in the world, so these could be anyone

galesbury wrote on March 9, 2009, 8:10pm

Hence I took a random person. I didn't want to put my handle up, but it is unique and i would rather my what's new was not public.....

domanite wrote on March 9, 2009, 9:32pm

When you go to your profile page, at the top of your "What's New" feed is a "Permissions" link, that takes you to a page with very fine-grained control over who can see what on your profile. Are you saying that even when you lock down your profile with these controls, search engines are still able to access your locked-down profile information?

luger7 wrote on March 27, 2009, 10:50pm

I agree... what´s new feed must be private...PRIVATE!!!! I had some troubles because i never imagined someone who is not in my network could see what i did and wrote in a mutual network friend's profile... damn!

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