Month: February 2010

We reported Googl’e launch of Buzz last week. Then within days after this launch, Google  did a huge overhaul of its service after receiving an anormous  amount of  complaints about it’s privacy infringements. Buzz allows users to share messages, web links, photos and videos with friends and colleagues directly within Gmail. Great, no? But when it launched it automatically linked users with other people they were discovered to have most contact with failing to take into consideration that many would resent being automaticaly followed by those they did not designate. Responding to the angry mob of emails and Help Forum rants, Google has changed the system to an auto-suggest model. Google will also no longer automatically connect any public Picasa photo albums and Google Reader items. On their official Google Blog , they wrote: We’ve heard your feedback loud and clear, and since we launched Google Buzz four days ago, we’ve been working around the clock to address the concerns you’ve raised.You won’t be set up to follow anyone until you have reviewed the suggestions and clicked Follow selected people and start using Buzz. Despite the changes that Google made, The Electronic Privacy Information Centre filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission yesterday arguing  that privacy violations remain because Google automatically signs up Gmail users for Buzz, rather than waiting for them to do so themselves, or ‘opt...