Users of Google's web-based email service Gmail will be bombarded with messages from total strangers following a system update which allows people to send them emails without needing their address, it is feared.
The change, announced on yesterday, is designed to integrate Gmail with Google+, the firm's two-and-a-half-year old social network that has 540 million active users. As well as seeing their social network contacts added to their list of email contacts, the update means Google+ users will be able to email people on the social network directly even if they don't have their address. Currently anyone signing up for a Gmail account is automatically given a Google+ account too.
Google said the new feature will make it easier for people who use both services to communicate with their friends. Some privacy advocates said Google should have made the new feature 'opt-in,' meaning that users should explicitly agree to receive messages from other Google+ users, rather than being required to manually change the setting. Marc Rotenberg, the executive director of non-profit Electronic Privacy Information Center, called the new feature 'troubling'.
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