[governance] Google Buzz Prompts Privacy Investigation in Canada

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The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada – the same office that
prompted major changes at Facebook – is taking a closer look at the privacy
implications of Google Buzz. According to CBC
News<http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/02/16/google-buzz-privacy.html>,
the office may issue further comment on Wednesday.

With Facebook, the privacy commissioner was
concerned<http://mashable.com/2009/07/17/canada-facebook-privacy/>
about
the social networking storing user information after users deleted their
accounts, eventually prompting a number of policy and feature
changes<http://mashable.com/2009/08/27/facebook-privacy-update/> at
the site that have been implemented worldwide.

With Buzz, the investigation presumably focuses on the service’s more
controversial aspects – namely, the way in which it automatically finds
users to follow based on your email correspondence – a practice that has
drawn criticism (and quick feature
adjustments<http://mashable.com/2010/02/13/google-buzz-changes/> by
Google) since Buzz debuted in user’s Gmail inboxes last week.

Stateside, the Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a complaint
with the FTC <http://epic.org/2010/02/epic-urges-federal-trade-commi.html>
asking
them to investigate Buzz, writing that the product “violated user
expectations, diminished user privacy, contradicted Google’s privacy policy,
and may have violated federal wiretap laws.”

It’s safe to say that this story is far from over. In the meantime, we’re
continuing to experiment with Buzz – you can follow us
here<http://google.com/profiles/mashable>
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