Invasion of private information.

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  organicwhisperer · Member · Oct 20, 2015 at 4:43 am

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  I don’t mind gravatar and it’s services. it’s fine. But I somehow have my gravatar profile connected to google in a way where my private phone number when typed into the omnibox, goes straight to the front page of google. How this happened, I do not know. what do i do? i don’t want to change numbers…i will just unsubcribe from gravatar. but I don’t know if that will help either. I’ll just be stuck i’ll that. I am INFURIATED and getting random texts and phone calls from random people asking random questions. what do I do, who do I report? because i will file suit tomorrow once I find out. i AM BEYOND UPSET.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 22, 2015 at 7:52 pm

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  You misunderstand the situation. Automattic Inc owns both wordpress.COM and gravatar.com. A wordpress.COM account is a gravatar account. They are one in the same.

  See here http://en.gravatar.com/organicwhisperer
  Have you not read the support docs at gravatar?
  http://en.gravatar.com/support/wordpress-accounts/

  How to Make Your Gravatar Profile Private
  http://en.gravatar.com/support/profile-privacy/

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Oct 23, 2015 at 2:35 am

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  You should log into your Gravatar account and remove your phone number.

  That appears to be the source of the issue.