Safeguard your Gmail contact information

Does Google expose your Gmail contact information? If, like many others, the first thing you do after turning on your computer is to log into Gmail (Google account), then you might inadvertently expose your Gmail contact information to any ill-intentioned website.

Do you remember the link mentioned in the article about using Google to calculate compatibility? Through that link, it's possible to display your Gmail contact information (including emails, names, addresses, phone numbers, etc.). Malicious websites could exploit Google’s “new feature” by generating a piece of JS code (though I don’t understand JS code myself, those who are interested can look it up themselves). When you are logged into Gmail (or other services that use a Google account for login, such as Google Reader or Orkut) and click on a link containing this code, your Gmail contact information will be intercepted...