Caution: Mail group send shows all contacts!!!

Beware: Behaviour change in the current version of Mail (OSX 10.9.2)
Mail exposes smart group recipients to ALL other recipients. This has proved very embarrassing and rather unacceptable that this behaviour has changed.
This in my opinion is one of the worst software errors APPLE has made in my 20 years usage as it has trashed the privacy of my group.

I can't replicate what you are seeing.
I start a new email, start to type the first letters of the group name (on the To: line) and the field populates with the group name only, no addressees are shown. (To, CC and BCC behave identically here). See below
I get identical behaviour if I open Contacts, ctl-click on the group name and select 'Send Email' from the menu.
In Mail>Preferences>Composing: how is this set?
This behaviour predates 10.9 by some time, (at least for me)

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