EPIC fail: Google faces FTC complaint over Buzz privacy
- Wednesday, 17 February 2010 09:12
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a privacy watchdog and public interest research group, is calling foul on Buzz, Google's recently launched social networking service. The group has filed a complaint with the FTC outlining several major grievances.
Shortly after Google launched Buzz last week, a number of users expressed dismay over the service's loose handling of user privacy. It automatically makes the user's Gmail address book into a public Buzz contact list, a move that is of questionable value to users and subjects some to the risk of exposing sensitive information to the wrong people.













