Open letter to Google

[0olong]

Dear Google,

I've long been a fan of the things you do, and thought that overwhelmingly you manage to live up to that 'Don't Be Evil' mission statement.

However I'm really very unhappy about the privacy implications of the way you've launched Google Buzz. If you're going to automatically generate a list of contacts based on who I talk to, you

Comments

[helen4morrissey]

Absobloodylutely!

[ghostsmut]

Yes, this is quite bad. However, I have yet to click on "okay" in Buzz so I assume mine will be fine. If I never use Buzz or set up a profile I'll just not be on it, right?

[tarchannan]

Incorrect. I very consciously avoided clicking on anything that might implicate me with buzz and was showing up on people's "following" lists anyhow. It seems clicking on "turn off buzz" did not help this. I hope manually removing followers and followings from within the buzz tab did.