Sunday, 14th February, 2010
By now everybody has heard about Google’s latest lack of privacy fiasco with their new MySpace wanna be, Buzz.
Google seems to have forgotten to mention that if you have a gmail account Buzz is automatically active and if you want to turn it off –oh, I don’t know, maybe to keep it from sharing your most popular contacts with the entire effin’ world– you need to navigate to the bottom of your gmail email page and look in the sub-microscopic print for a link that say “turn off Buzz.”
Google says if you don’t want the world to see your contacts you need to set your profile to private.
This is cool, except that you need to create a Buzz profile to do this, and all your contacts will still be exposed to anyone who you let see your profile.
BTW: You do not need a Buzz profile for the world to see your contacts. All you need to do is use something like reader to expose them.
Google officially dropped the “Don’t be evil” motto sometime around March of last year. —Hmmm, I wonder why?