Google Settles Buzz Privacy Suit

bouldin writes "This evening, Google e-mailed Gmail users who had been invited to Google Buzz to advise of settlement on a class-action privacy suit. The class action suit alleged privacy breaches due to the default privacy settings when Google rolled out the service. Terms of the settlement include $8 million to cover lawyer fees and fund privacy policy education on the Internet, but do not include cash payouts to Gmail users. With several outstanding class action privacy suits against Facebook and Zynga, it is interesting to see Google set this precedent."

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Re:even if they gave me money

[miffo.swe]

Nope, its not astrotufring unless its paid, like Microsoft does it.

A big reson people react so strongly is that much of the fuzz about Google and privacy is manufactured by pr people. The problem is, Google is amongst the absolute top when it comes to privacy. There are much bigger fish to fry with much worse policies. The campaign against Google trying to purport them as evil is pretty transparent and an obvious PR fake since none of the complaints originate from users themselves, only various "interest groups", all nicely tied to Microsoft.

Microsofts problem is that everybody thinks they are a bunch of douchebags that couldnt code themselves out of a wet basic Hello World. Google on the other hand is the posterchild of quality, customer satisfaction and delivery.

What to do? Bring Google down to your level where you know how to fight.