Thread: Say NO To Buzz
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Old 02-11-2010, 06:25 PM  
rowan
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Originally Posted by holograph View Post
i don't think Google will ever come such low to opt in people automatically. i got the buzz yesterday, been using gmail throughout the day then got my session expired which offered to log in back, at that point Google presented two links: join buzz to see what's it about or skip to using regular gmail. I opted to check out buzz and while in there Google presented options to what and with whom I want to share and follow. I don't feel I have been auto opted in the buzz and all my accounts have been shared with anyone without my consent.
Read the comments in the OP article, there are people who declined buzz yet still had automatically populated profiles listed publically. Some had their ex's listed as friends/followers even though they hadn't communicated for months or years.
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