Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz
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Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz
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Re: Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz
#2This is the sort of thing that was absolutely predictable.
Re: Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz
#3How do you not see this coming with a feature like Buzz? Why didn't they do any sort of staged roll-out or opt-in for a feature with such obvious privacy implications? I'm stunned. Doesn't Google employ tons of lawyers, ethics experts, or people with enough common sense to spot this?
Maybe it was some sort of skunk-works project that got out without sufficient oversight?
Re: Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz
#4Amongst others, this is one reason why I'm not an early-adopter. Too many things have odd consequences, and although this one is and pretty much always was obvious, many are not, and require devious minds and talented/persistent hackers to find them.
So, in fact, this is an opportunity to say "thank you" to the hackers out there that tinker with and attempt to break (sorry - "improve") everything as soon as they can get their hands on it. You make the world a better place.
Re: Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz
#5Having worked in the family services sector...I'm actually thinking this post is full bullshit. I very much doubt this even happened.
I could be wrong of course, but the post has way too many red flags to sound true.
Re: Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz
#6There are clearly no longer any humans working at google, just one giant heartless inhuman machine calling the shots...
Or at least thats how Google looks to the public these days. If thats the perception they want, they got it.
I think this Buzz privacy fiasco is an historic lesson in the convergence of humanity and software and the lesson learned is that privacy of personal relationships should be a fundamental right
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#7I have never created a google profile either. Is simply clicking "turn off buzz" at the bottom of gmail sufficient to completely opt-out of all of this nonsense? ...because that's exactly what I want to do at this point.
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#8Having worked in the family services sector...I'm actually thinking this post is full bullshit. I very much doubt this even happened. I could be wrong of course, but the post has way too many red flags to sound true.
Please list some of these red flags for those of us without a family services sector background.
Re: Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz
#9I have never created a google profile either. Is simply clicking "turn off buzz" at the bottom of gmail sufficient to completely opt-out of all of this nonsense? ...because that's exactly what I want to do at this point.
You'll have to block people who are following you first
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#10uh, nothing that you post on anywhere outside buzz is propagated via buzz unless you ask buzz to propagate it, unless I missed something. also, buzz doesn't have access to this information unless you allow it to. it seemed that way to me when I used it.