Lawmakers Ask For FTC Investigation of Google Buzz

angry tapir writes "Eleven US lawmakers have asked the FTC to investigate Google's launch of its Buzz social-networking product for breaches of consumer privacy. The representatives — six Democrats and five Republicans from the House Energy and Commerce Committee — noted in their letter that Google's roll-out of Buzz exposed private information of users to Google's Gmail service to outsiders. In one case, a 9-year-old girl accidentally shared her contact list in Gmail with a person who has a 'sexually charged' username, the lawmakers said in the letter."

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Re:Won't somebody think of the children

[Stan92057]

There is NO reason for a child under the age of 18 to have an internet connected computer or device behind closed doors out of adult supervisions sight. When i was nine i have to tell my parents were i was ,where i was going ,what phone number to contact,how long are you going to be there,who was i going to be with and who were they? And god help me if any of it wasn't true. If a child cant hide behind closed doors then they cant pickup sexual predators. And just how does a nine year old know if a person is a sexual predator,until its too late? And another thing were did she first contact the man? Was it in a chat room? Was it facebook? Or was it because of the was Google forced millions of people into an instant social network without there knowledge or consent? And 1 more thing,when you were nine,how actively were you looking for a sexual predator to rape you? I wasn't even thinking about sex at 9 for crying out loud