Privacy alert: Google calendar may display real names of other Google mail users

As discovered by SecuriTeam it’s possible to discover the real name behind a Google mail addresings in web forums, mailing lists or newsgroups. It could also give spammers the ability to send you more targeted advertisements.

More details are in the relavnt SecuriTeam blog post. Since a lot of our users use Google Calendar, I thought I might pass this along.

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