Google Buzz Abandons Auto-Following Amid Privacy Concerns

February 14th, 2010 admin
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As we noted this morning, Google isn’t wasting any time in responding to user criticism about Buzz.  Now they’ve rolled out another set of changes to further address Buzz’s privacy issues. The biggest change involves the automatic follow system: it’s now being switched to a suggestion model, where Google will present you with a list of friends it thinks you’d like to follow, but gives you a chance to deselect them before you start using the service. That’s a pretty big change — when Buzz launched four days ago, one of its selling points was that it took no work on the user’s part to get started, …


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