Fallout from Google Buzz continues: The EFF weighs in.
You’ve got to wonder how badly you foobered up your product release when the Electronic Frontier Foundation has this to say about Buzz:
If you’re going to use Google Buzz, we recommend that you opt-out during profile creation. If you have already created a profile,¬†change it to private immediately. Then go through the suggested list, and edit it as appropriate before making it public again. PC World has a helpful¬†privacy checklist to help users understand the privacy implications of Google Buzz options.
How many people are going to want to read through such checklists and really tweak their profile/settings in order to actually take advantage of Buzz while maintaining some semblance of privacy? I just turned it off and removed anything I could find related to Buzz in my profile. If anything, it made me take a closer look at how open my profile was on Google.
Fail, Google. Really really really huge fail.
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