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

4 points by OOvsuOO 4 years ago | 5 comments

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?

helph67 4 years ago |

My opinion is that you are better to deal with organisations that guarantee your privacy and Google is not your friend.

OOvsuOO 4 years ago | |

I agree, in opinion. Does anyone have any evidence to support this opinion? Specifically regarding sending sensitive information over google forms?

muzani 4 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.

tedmiston 4 years ago |

> Yet it's putting all my credentials out on somebody's else's account.

I definitely would not put credentials into a Google Form. The results are plaintext...

stevenalowe 4 years ago |

It’s fine - the form connection is secure as is the backend storage.