[kwlug-disc] GMail, profile photo, and privacy: HOW'd it DO that?!?

[Raymond Chen]

I signed up on graveyard.com to set up a picture linked to my email
address. I am not surprised to see that picture on other websites. I assume
you have not done that?

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 02:44 Chris Irwin via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 09:17:25PM -0800, Ronald Barnes wrote:
> >
> >Along with the auto-completion (which may have come from the phone
> >owner's email history - we've exchanged mail before), a profile
> >picture appeared.
> >
> >
> >It was the profile photo of my *parents'* account.
>
> I don't typically use gmail, but I logged into an account via the web
> and was able to reproduce this.
>
> I filled out your first & last name, and email address, then saved the
> contact.  The contact icon is a photo of a couple -- presumably your
> parents. Editing the contact shows no photo set.
>
> Weird.
>
> --
> Chris Irwin
>
> email:   chris at chrisirwin.ca
>   xmpp:   chris at chrisirwin.ca
>    web: https://chrisirwin.ca
>
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