Original author here. I'm fully aware that the first thing a regulatory body will do, whether I go via the Financial Conduct Authority because they're a bank or the Information Commissioner's Officer because they…
Often I'm lazy and just black out revealing information, like I did in my blog post about how British Gas can't understand my name (https://danq.me/it-is-only-q). But sometimes I've done the same thing in other places…
Could be! My only counterpoint is that every time they've previously made a change, they've emailed to say so, and I've searched my email (including spam) and not found any such mention this time around. /shrug/
Sorry, I got mixed-up between this and another thread. You're right, the Google Play one was provided separately (and has now been corrected). My post was about the Business Profile one. Which started (seemingly…
For the business account. I wanted to take control of the Google Business Profile (back then: Google My Business) listing. To do that, Google asked for a phone number they could call. I provided one, and then…
My phone number is on my CV, and that's deliberate (I want a job!). It's in plenty of other places online too. But none of them (except the Google Play one, which I'm fixing) are associated with the business or were…
Yes, there is. I'm not claiming that my personal phone number shouldn't be online anywhere. There are plenty of places it's pretty easy to find! I'm just saying that I didn't put my personal phone number onto a public…
Not sure that Google offer Takeout on Business Profiles. Businesses aren't often protected by the kinds of PII-protecting laws (GDPR etc.) that individuals are, and so tech companies are less-inclined to make tools to…
Post author here. There shouldn't be one on the website (and I can't see one?), but the Google Play developer profile is unfortunate: thanks for pointing it out.
Blog owner here. You're welcome to unblur it: I swapped the number out in the screenshot for one of Ofcom's list of official never-to-be-assigned telephone numbers for drama (e.g. film & TV) use…
No JS on that page either!
Thanks; I hadn't noticed that. It's a side-effect from some terrible CMS plugin I thought I'd disabled. Fixing it now. Edit: Fixed! Thanks again!
Original author here. I'm fully aware that the first thing a regulatory body will do, whether I go via the Financial Conduct Authority because they're a bank or the Information Commissioner's Officer because they…
Often I'm lazy and just black out revealing information, like I did in my blog post about how British Gas can't understand my name (https://danq.me/it-is-only-q). But sometimes I've done the same thing in other places…
Could be! My only counterpoint is that every time they've previously made a change, they've emailed to say so, and I've searched my email (including spam) and not found any such mention this time around. /shrug/
Sorry, I got mixed-up between this and another thread. You're right, the Google Play one was provided separately (and has now been corrected). My post was about the Business Profile one. Which started (seemingly…
For the business account. I wanted to take control of the Google Business Profile (back then: Google My Business) listing. To do that, Google asked for a phone number they could call. I provided one, and then…
My phone number is on my CV, and that's deliberate (I want a job!). It's in plenty of other places online too. But none of them (except the Google Play one, which I'm fixing) are associated with the business or were…
Yes, there is. I'm not claiming that my personal phone number shouldn't be online anywhere. There are plenty of places it's pretty easy to find! I'm just saying that I didn't put my personal phone number onto a public…
Not sure that Google offer Takeout on Business Profiles. Businesses aren't often protected by the kinds of PII-protecting laws (GDPR etc.) that individuals are, and so tech companies are less-inclined to make tools to…
Post author here. There shouldn't be one on the website (and I can't see one?), but the Google Play developer profile is unfortunate: thanks for pointing it out.
Blog owner here. You're welcome to unblur it: I swapped the number out in the screenshot for one of Ofcom's list of official never-to-be-assigned telephone numbers for drama (e.g. film & TV) use…
No JS on that page either!
Thanks; I hadn't noticed that. It's a side-effect from some terrible CMS plugin I thought I'd disabled. Fixing it now. Edit: Fixed! Thanks again!