Google announced some changes to Google Buzz on Thursday after some users expressed privacy concerns about the new service.
Early users of Google Buzz had complained that they found the settings too complicated, especially the ones that pertained to privacy. In a blog post on Thursday, Google said it built privacy controls into Google Buzz from day one, but acknowledged the most strident criticism — that it was difficult to make one's list of followers private — in tweaking the set-up process for the new social-networking service.
On its Gmail blog, the company said it had "heard from people that the checkbox for choosing not to display this information was too hard to find, and based on this feedback, we've changed the notice to make it very clear".
For more on this story, see Google tweaks Buzz privacy settings on CNET News.
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Pissed me off no end, they new what they where doing when they set this up, did they ask? nope, did they even factor in privacy controls? nope, they just assumed people wanted there private details splattered all over the frigging web!
Another frigging crappy idea born out of some brightly colored office with fluffy sodding bean bags.