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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...
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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.
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No, they didn't sign you up, you had to click that you wanted to join. At least, that's what happened for me.

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"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.
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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.

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"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.

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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.
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At some point Google is going to step in a pile from which they can't remove the stink.

At least a decade off.

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(Malcolm @ Feb. 20 2010,19:44)
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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.

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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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