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Forum: Internet Links Topic: Google hates your privacy started by: Leisher Posted by Leisher on Feb. 17 2010,12:52
< They forced all of their Gmail users into being "Buzz" users. >Buzz is their new social networking site. An invasion of privacy? Yes, but not a horrific one. I mean, all they did was sign you up for their new service. No, they went above and beyond later... QUOTE Gmail account holders who then began using Buzz found their first public posting was essentially a list of their most frequent e-mail contacts. Buzz decided for itself who users e-mailed most often, then put those users on a list as "followers" and made that list public. Quickly, nightmare hypothetical scenarios were published -- workers who had recently e-mailed about job interviews had their job hunt exposed, for example. Cheating lovers or spouses were outed.
Posted by TheCatt on Feb. 17 2010,13:06
No, they didn't sign you up, you had to click that you wanted to join. At least, that's what happened for me.
Posted by Leisher on Feb. 17 2010,13:24
From the article:QUOTE "Regardless of whether a user clicked the button labeled 'Sweet! Check out Buzz' or “Nah, go to my inbox,’ Google Buzz was activated," the complaint says.
Posted by TPRJones on Feb. 17 2010,15:57
Hmmmm. I didn't click opt-in for it, but I do have the following option now showing as the default selection in gmail setup: "Show the list of people I'm following and the list of people following me on my public Google profile"However I don't have a Google profile, so no worries. But someone with a Google profile could possibly be annoyed with this. Posted by TheCatt on Feb. 17 2010,16:17
(Leisher @ Feb. 17 2010,16:24) QUOTE From the article: QUOTE "Regardless of whether a user clicked the button labeled 'Sweet! Check out Buzz' or “Nah, go to my inbox,’ Google Buzz was activated," the complaint says. Ahh. Nice. Posted by Vince on Feb. 20 2010,08:48
At some point Google is going to step in a pile from which they can't remove the stink.They've been skating the edge for a while. Posted by Malcolm on Feb. 20 2010,16:44
(Vince @ Feb. 20 2010,10:48) QUOTE At some point Google is going to step in a pile from which they can't remove the stink. At least a decade off. Posted by GORDON on Feb. 20 2010,18:16
(Malcolm @ Feb. 20 2010,19:44) QUOTE (Vince @ Feb. 20 2010,10:48) QUOTE At some point Google is going to step in a pile from which they can't remove the stink. At least a decade off. I'd say fewer than 5. Hopefully they aren't buying up media companies by then. Posted by Malcolm on Feb. 20 2010,20:11
Well, MS & Yahoo just shoved their search efforts together, so we'll see if they can dent the big G. I doubt it.
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