> Do they use their private accounts at work?

Generally not, although in this case she had opened her personal
laptop to show her colleague an e-mail I had sent to her gmail account.

> Did you send the pictures to a work account?

No.

> Is your wife angry with you?

No.  She blames Google, not me.

> Is your wife in the
> habit of opening private emails from yourself in front of your boss?

No, and she did not open a private e-mail from me in front of anyone.
She opened a separate work-related e-mail, in front of her colleague,
not my boss.

The e-mail she opened in front of her colleague was *not* a private
e-mail; its entire content was work related, and she showed it to the
colleague for work-related reasons.  Her concern was that Google took
pictures from a different (private) e-mail and displayed them
alongside the work-related e-mail she was trying to show her colleague.

> Explain to both your friend and your wife (it's going to have to be a
> good one for her) that she should turn off the widget while at work.

OK, and of course she'll have to figure out how to turn off the
widget.  But the widget itself would not be a bad thing if it only
displayed pictures from my public profile.  It is the fact that it
takes pictures from an unrelated e-mail is what is insidious.
It would be better if there were a way to leave the widget in place
but disable its new "feature".

     - Rich