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Why even ?private? isn?t private on Buzz

By scott

Oh Google. I really want to like Buzz, and if you’d have gone through your usual never ending beta stage we might have forgiven some of your howlers so far …

Google Reader Items

Now you can share and view these in Buzz - as you can within GReader - only with Buzz there is a difference.  Even if you are sharing with a private group - the names of people withi that group are available for anyone else in that group to see - if they have a google profile. All you need to do is click on ‘private’ next to the padlock and there you go - links to everyone in the ‘private’ group’s Buzz’s.

Now again, I’m sure Google don’t see this as a problem and most people sharing the items probably wont either, but again, it would be nice to be asked whether you want this information sharing and if you do that it should be you’re choice not the default to do it.

Full post as published by Information Overload on February 17, 2010 (boomark / email).