For the last year I have used my obfuscated share URL for sharing
market research with a small handful of trusted colleagues.  I have
over 700 shared items which represent one of the most thorough
catalogues of discourse about a very particular market in my
industry.  Its absolutely intolerable to me that now all of my
industry contacts (competitors) who are also gmail contacts will be
able to mine this information as well as piece together fragments of
other initiatives I've been considering.

My only options to "opt-out" of this are to unshare 789 posts -
effectively deleting an archive of research, or delete all my contacts
from gmail.

This is awful, awful, awful.  And I say this as someone who loves
google and is rooting for them to make strides in the dubious social
graph space.  This is a big misstep and I'm frankly shocked.

On Dec 14, 6:14 pm, Google Reader Guide wrote: