{"id":334510,"date":"2010-02-18T05:22:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T10:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100217\/2316078216.shtml"},"modified":"2010-02-18T05:22:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T10:22:25","slug":"and-of-course-class-action-lawsuit-filed-against-google-over-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/334510","title":{"rendered":"And, Of Course, Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Google Over Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"

I definitely agreed with others that Google’s failure to realize the potential privacy problems of automating followers based on who you talk to the most — and then making that info public — was a privacy mistake<\/a>, but is it worth a class action lawsuit? To lawyers, of course it is. These days, if you do anything that people don’t like, you can pretty much expect a class action lawsuit that really serves only one purpose: to enrich the lawyers bringing the class action lawsuit. So, it comes as no surprise that a class action lawsuit have been filed against Google for the Buzz privacy mishap<\/a>. But, really, is this necessary? The company quickly admitted it had made a mistake and changed things. At this point, what good does a class action lawsuit do? It’s not like the company hid something bad and tried to avoid taking responsibility for it. Class action lawsuits can have real value, but in this case, it’s a pure money grab.<\/p>\n

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I definitely agreed with others that Google’s failure to realize the potential privacy problems of automating followers based on who you talk to the most — and then making that info public — was a privacy mistake, but is it worth a class action lawsuit? To lawyers, of course it is. These days, if you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}