Google buzz alert
Feb. 12th, 2010 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
effexHey folks, heads up - it looks like Google fucked up and made Buzz even creepier then it initially appeared. Via ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cleolinda:
Fugitivus - Fuck you, Google: I use my private Gmail account to email my boyfriend and my mother. There’s a BIG drop-off between them and my other “most frequent” contacts. You know who my third most frequent contact is? My abusive ex-husband. Which is why it’s SO EXCITING, Google, that you AUTOMATICALLY allowed all my most frequent contacts access to my Reader, including all the comments I’ve made on Reader items, usually shared with my boyfriend, who I had NO REASON to hide my current location or workplace from, and never did.
Lifehacker - Google Updates, Explains Buzz Privacy Setup: Does it seem to you like Google underestimated how seriously people would take having even a small part of their inboxes exposed to the world? Yeah, well, us too. Still, Google does seem to have moved quickly to at least make opting out of public follower/followee listing a more prominent option, if not necessarily a default.
MSNBC - Using Google Buzz? Here’s a privacy checklist: Silicon Alley Insider raised some very real privacy concerns about Google Buzz this week, noting that the service ends up exposing many of your e-mail contacts by default. That's a problem if you have e-mail contacts you'd rather not make public.
Please, everyone, go through and update your privacy settings PRONTO (especially if, like me, your fannish account has some RL leakage). Or shut the damn thing off entirely.
ETA (still fromcleolinda): CNET - Buzz off: Disabling Google Buzz.
cleolinda:Fugitivus - Fuck you, Google: I use my private Gmail account to email my boyfriend and my mother. There’s a BIG drop-off between them and my other “most frequent” contacts. You know who my third most frequent contact is? My abusive ex-husband. Which is why it’s SO EXCITING, Google, that you AUTOMATICALLY allowed all my most frequent contacts access to my Reader, including all the comments I’ve made on Reader items, usually shared with my boyfriend, who I had NO REASON to hide my current location or workplace from, and never did.
Lifehacker - Google Updates, Explains Buzz Privacy Setup: Does it seem to you like Google underestimated how seriously people would take having even a small part of their inboxes exposed to the world? Yeah, well, us too. Still, Google does seem to have moved quickly to at least make opting out of public follower/followee listing a more prominent option, if not necessarily a default.
MSNBC - Using Google Buzz? Here’s a privacy checklist: Silicon Alley Insider raised some very real privacy concerns about Google Buzz this week, noting that the service ends up exposing many of your e-mail contacts by default. That's a problem if you have e-mail contacts you'd rather not make public.
Please, everyone, go through and update your privacy settings PRONTO (especially if, like me, your fannish account has some RL leakage). Or shut the damn thing off entirely.
ETA (still from
cleolinda): CNET - Buzz off: Disabling Google Buzz.
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