I have left them a hopefully pity comment about how their intense and clear dislike of "opt-in" rather than "opt-out" is really making me think they're not worth the trouble of working-with...
I was speaking to a friend yesterday who'd casually decided to try Buzz and was mortified when he discovered that extremely personal and embarrassing stuff (from Google reader, I think) could be viewed by a couple of his neighbors with gmail accounts. It took him a long time to figure out how to get out of the hole he'd got into.
Do the Google folks have no imagination or concern for te privacy of their users?
I suppose at this point I'm happy that Google mandated six character user names before I got my first gmail invite. Since I couldn't use my standard username, it has never been anything other than a very rarely used backup.
Isn't Google the company who's first principle is supposed to be "Do no evil"?
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Date: 2010-02-12 01:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-12 02:06 pm (UTC)I just sent them a similar message about how forcing peopel to opt out *is evil* ...
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Date: 2010-02-12 02:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-12 02:18 pm (UTC)Do the Google folks have no imagination or concern for te privacy of their users?
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Date: 2010-02-12 02:22 pm (UTC)What's "Google BUZZ"?
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Date: 2010-02-12 02:32 pm (UTC)BUZZ is some kind of social network that Google unilaterally decided the users of gmail would belong to.
Idiots.
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Date: 2010-02-12 04:33 pm (UTC)Susan Cole
Orlando, FL
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Date: 2010-02-12 04:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-12 04:55 pm (UTC)Isn't Google the company who's first principle is supposed to be "Do no evil"?
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Date: 2010-02-12 05:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-12 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-12 11:53 pm (UTC)