Game Center Privacy Violation

Game Center displays real name not nickname to public, public profile is off.  How do I change display to nickname?

My experience is the opposite, they do read here... and they indeed police this forum, first hand experience...
My fault, I should not be ranting about .mac, mobileme, game center, icloud, warranties or our privacy. Instead I should be incredible greatfull for all the opportunities Apple has given us...
To be constructive in my comments, I would however love features like;
- switching off Game Center totally, or at least have control over what information is shared..
- sharing files from a file centered view not application centered. (MobileMe way instead of iCloud way, possibly Timecapsule backup?)
- just being able to browse through iCloud, and place files anywhere I want...
- make OSX available on ipads, am not interested in IOS on my mac
- monitoring what data is shared with apple or partners, like f.i. Little snitch on my mac..
- adding (e.g. sd) memory for storage
- Changing the opt-out to opt-in options...
- allowing for third party browsers
Also I would love to have feedback on my feedback, but they are probably busy making those beautifull products, which are enriching our lives so much...
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ is such a usefull tool for making those ever so much better..

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    Obivously Apple cannot, and does not, literally know who I have met. (No foil hat for me!) But they DO seem to have some data source that correlates closely with people I have met (and Meetup activity especially). I'm dying to know how that's possible.
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    (Even weirder is that nobody else seems to have posted about this happening; it may not happen to everyone, but surely some people have had this same question? I feel like I'm in a Kafka novel...)

    That's a good thought that could explain some cases, but not mine: these people definitely don't know my email address, and I'm not in their Address Book. (Some of these are people I might meet on a hike, say, and nod to in passing on other hikes once a or twice a year, and that's the extent of the "relationship"--no contact info ever exchanged. We don't even know what cities each other are from.)
    we don't even know each others' email addresses, and even if we did, my Apple ID email is not one I use for actual emailing purposes. Nor do we know each others' phone numbers, nor gaming nicknames; often not even last names.
    I should correct my first post: I said I "do now know well"... that should be "do NOT know well".

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