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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The Buzz on Google Buzz

On February 9, Google released “Google Buzz” - a social networking tool that is integrated with Gmail, Google's web-based mail service. Gmail users can “buzz” by sharing links, photos, videos, status messages and comments organized in "conversations" and visible in the user's inbox. Buzz integrates posts on Twitter, Blogger, YouTube, Google Reader, as well as the photo sharing services Picasa and Flickr.

Almost immediately, users began complaining about loss of privacy with the integration of Buzz into the Gmail. For example, user's Buzz profile discloses the list of Gmail contacts most frequently emailed or chatted with, unless the user manually disables that feature.

Today we asked our contributors if they believe Google is at fault for failing to protect the privacy of their Gmail users. After reading their thoughts, have your say by leaving a comment.