Google Docs Exposes Owner's Email When Sharing Publicly via Link
Google Docs users request an option to hide their email address when sharing a document publicly via 'anyone with the link,' since the owner's email is currently exposed to anyone who opens the file. A privacy gap in public link-sharing that affects any user sharing documents broadly.
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