{"id":337490,"date":"2010-02-18T16:47:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5475043"},"modified":"2010-02-18T16:47:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:47:44","slug":"google-ceo-thinks-buzz-privacy-worked-just-dandy-block-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/337490","title":{"rendered":"Google CEO Thinks Buzz Privacy Worked Just Dandy [Block Quote]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/500x_schmidtbuzzbq.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/>So much for <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5473660\/google-admits-buzz-testing-sucked-and-they-are-very-very-sorry\">apologies<\/a>! Google CEO <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #ericschmidt\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/ericschmidt\/\">Eric Schmidt<\/a> yesterday described user discomfort over Buzz&#8217;s privacy issues as &#8220;confusion,&#8221; saying that &#8220;nobody&#8217;s personal information was disclosed.&#8221; This is, of course, complete and utter manure.<\/p>\n<p>Buzz&#8217;s privacy problems are <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5469101\/google-buzz-is-a-dirty-snitch\">widely documented<\/a>. Google&#8217;s misadventure in social networking has already inspired <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5473772\/buzz-gets-its-inevitable-epic-ftc-complaint\">an FTC complaint<\/a> and a class action law suit. Google itself has had to make multiple <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5470090\/google-buzz-turns-less-creepy-after-some-improvements\">security<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5471265\/google-continues-damage-control-with-more-buzz-security-updates\">updates<\/a> on the fly. So&#8230; where&#8217;s the confusion?<\/p>\n<p>Actually, come to think of it, I <em>am<\/em> confused. Confused how Eric Schmidt can <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2005\/08\/05\/technology\/google_cnet\/\">blacklist CNET<\/a> for publishing info about him they found on&#8230; wait for it&#8230; Google, then turn around and say his company did everything right when exposing people&#8217;s contacts and personal information without user knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n<p>Yep. That confuses the heck out of me. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2010\/feb\/17\/google-buzz-schmidt\">Guardian UK<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=9df361fcd772a4d197d69d8452bc2ad2&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=9df361fcd772a4d197d69d8452bc2ad2&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=ae_Kux9ldvw:xSx--x541eg:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=ae_Kux9ldvw:xSx--x541eg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=ae_Kux9ldvw:xSx--x541eg:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=ae_Kux9ldvw:xSx--x541eg:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=ae_Kux9ldvw:xSx--x541eg:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=ae_Kux9ldvw:xSx--x541eg:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/ae_Kux9ldvw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much for apologies! Google CEO Eric Schmidt yesterday described user discomfort over Buzz&#8217;s privacy issues as &#8220;confusion,&#8221; saying that &#8220;nobody&#8217;s personal information was disclosed.&#8221; This is, of course, complete and utter manure. Buzz&#8217;s privacy problems are widely documented. Google&#8217;s misadventure in social networking has already inspired an FTC complaint and a class action law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337490","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\/5460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}