asterroc | Etsy privacy violations

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If you have an account at Etsy, either for selling or buying, I suggest you log in, go to settings, and change your privacy settings. Everything you do (buy, sell, rate) is now publicly viewable and is being logged in search engines, including associating your real life name (if entered) with your username.

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/03/etsy-users-irked-after-buyers-purchases-exposed-to-the-world.ars

Good call! I wish they wouldn't try to make it into a social network site :S

Thanks for the heads-up. That is pretty poor of them.

Ick. Thanks for the news, I just changed my settings accordingly. I never had my real name in there, thank goodness, but I couldn't quite remember.