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Google Tweaks Buzz To Tackle Privacy Concerns
CWmike writes "Just two days after launching its Buzz social networking tools, Google said Thursday night that it had tweaked the technology to address early privacy concerns. Google said in a blog post that the quick updates makes it easier for users to block access to their pages and eases the path to finding two privacy features. 'We've had plenty of feature requests, and some direct feedback,' wrote Todd Jackson, a product manager for Gmail and Google Buzz, in the blog post. 'In particular there's been concern from some people who thought their contacts were being made public without their knowledge (in particular the lists of people they follow, and the people following them). In addition, others felt they had too little control over who could follow them and were upset that they lacked the ability to block people who didn't yet have public profiles from following them.'"
You have to be at least a tiny bit careful about how you use your power. How is it that Spider-Man figured this out in his first comic, and Google's not figured it out after several years?
"Don't be evil" is more complicated than just not being actively malicious.
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Stop exaggerating it, Google is the company who has no respect to user privacy and run by some CEO having childish comments like "if you got something to hide".
I don't use a so called free mail to analyze my personal mails to show me ads, I don't post my location to web, I don't use a search engine which defaults to "on" for search history. I still use the Internet, Web. I just have brain to choose a set of services which suits to my needs without selling off my personal life.
What is the difference between a Google fan and a person thinks "Internet" is MS IE just because it appears on Start Menu that way?