Released: February 17, 2010

Privacy watchdog files complaint about Google Buzz

Source: Joelle Tessler, Baltimore Sun (Free Registration)

A privacy watchdog group complained to federal regulators on Tuesday about Google’s new Buzz social networking service, saying it violates federal consumer protection law.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed its complaint with the Federal Trade Commission just days after Google Inc. altered the service to address mounting privacy concerns.

Since launching Google Buzz as part of Gmail a week ago, the search company has come under fire for automatically creating public circles of friends for users based on their most frequent Gmail contacts. Over the weekend, Google altered the service to merely suggest contacts for its users’ social networks.

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