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Ask HN: Is it smart to put your personal info on a Google form?

4 pointsby OOvsuOOover 3 years ago
I'm curious. Is it safe to do a registration though google forms for a small-time club which has legit professional reasons to gather your personal information. I know I can contact them directly and ask for alternatives. I am sure this would be a hassle for them. Yet it's putting all my credentials out on somebody's else's account. I don't know even if the information will be encrypted. The alternative would be emailing them directly and that's the same thing?

4 comments

helph67over 3 years ago
My opinion is that you are better to deal with organisations that guarantee your privacy and Google is not your friend.
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muzaniover 3 years ago
It's roughly similar to email afaik, if not safer. It'll probably get extracted to some document. At least with Google forms the extraction is manual, giving less places to leak.
tedmistonover 3 years ago
&gt; Yet it&#x27;s putting all my credentials out on somebody&#x27;s else&#x27;s account.<p>I definitely would not put <i>credentials</i> into a Google Form. The results are plaintext...
stevenaloweover 3 years ago
It’s fine - the form connection is secure as is the backend storage.