Monday, February 15, 2010

BBC - dot.Maggie: Google Buzz: A mea culpa

If Google’s goal was to leapfrog Facebook, it has already succeeded in at least the privacy controversy domain

Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said his organisation still intended to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission this week pending its review of Google's changes.

"Even with these changes, there is still the concern that Gmail users are being driven into a social networking service that they didn't sign up for," Mr. Rotenberg said in an interview with the New York Times.

Given how much information Google already has about its users, and given the scrutiny the company is increasingly coming under from federal regulators, Google needs to go that extra mile when it comes to privacy and to be ahead of the curve when it launches new products and features.

BBC - dot.Maggie: Google Buzz: A mea culpa

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