Google has agreed to acquire an independent review of their private lives once every two years and one user choose requirements before the privacy changes were adopted.
Google founder Sergey Brin introduces Google Buzz-Feb 2010Today, in a blog post describes Google (GOOG) an agreement with the FTC over privacy concernes connected to the release of Google Buzz in February 2010. Especially if users took no action to change the default settings, Google on your users ' Google profile Gmail contacts. These contacts have been selected by Google if the user had frequently or recently via email or chatted with them (among other factors).
Google was relatively quickly with a fix (which was to make Google profiles private) but the damage had already been made to Google's reputation for privacy.
Privacy breech lead to a well publicized stalking cases, indicating that a previous Google Lobbyist and current White House employees kept in close contact with his former colleagues at Google, a double traffics cat for Google.
If if opt-in privacy disclosure becomes a baseline (and they do not have) for technological and social enterprises, which will affect the move of the FTC have on Facebook? Facebook changes quite often user privacy preferences and opt-in each time the user might slow their rate of change.
A much longer explanation of the settlement were released by the FTC.
Update: Sen. John Kerry says that this solution shows the need for commercial secrecy legislation.
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