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I opted to make my profile private but you still show my info

James Wolfe

February 29, 2012 23:47

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Have a look at my brothers profile page: http://www.geni.com/people/Sholom-Wolfe/5175037429060068780

It says that his brother (me) is PRIVATE, but you show my facebook image and MUCH WORSE, if you hover over the image, you show my name!

Obviously, if the user is private you should not be showing personal information about them.

I'm quite certain this is a violation of your privacy policy.  If you guys can't be trusted to keep private information that has been flagged as "private", then you certainly can't be trusted with the rest of the information.

This is the second breach of privacy that has appeared on my account. There will not be a third.

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  Lo March 01, 2012 03:56

  James - Given the way your Profile comes up, when click thru from there when logged in, looks like you went to  your Account Settings - Permissions - and unclicked the option to be "Let the public search for me".   But also see under Account Settings -- Profile Privacy (where you decide what folks can see of your Private Profile) -- is Photos of Me still clicked?  If so, this was YOUR choice, you just may not have been aware of it.   Unclick it, and see if that helps.

  I just checked on another window, signed out, and now see more clearly what you were talking about - in Logged Out version, under immediate family - it has you and your mother as "Private User" - but shows your photo, and you are totally correct - when hovered over, it gives your name.  I suspect you are correct that this is a bug.  Or at least, an oversight ??

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  Natalie MacLees March 20, 2012 20:01

  I'm so sorry that your name is still available as a tooltip. I've made a ticket to look into this and correct it asap.

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  Natalie MacLees April 13, 2012 00:19

  Hi James - we released a fix for this today. Your name will no longer be viewable from the tooltip.