[pierreb]

They certainly did to me. They spammed my Gmail contacts with my RSS feed and Orkut profile picture without my consent; these are separate accounts and I intended to keep them separate. So Google forced my hand on that and I may forgive, but I certainly won't forget that. Similar stories abound. That some of that information is public does not mean I want Google to take advantage of my social network to broadcast it against my will; there's a clear difference here that Google does not want to recognize. This is all about dissemination control by the end user rather than Google.

[carbon8]

Of course, making already public information available in more places is quite a bit different than exposing private communications.

[calcnerd256]

So you wish you'd exercised the equivalent of a robots.txt?