In an effort to address mounting criticism of the privacy issues surrounding Google Buzz, the search giant is going to ask all Buzz users to confirm or change their privacy settings tomorrow.
Google Buzz
In an announcement that will be coming soon, Google (
) will admit that they “didn’t get everything right,” which has resulted in serious privacy tweaks since its launch. However, many users weren’t affected by these changes because they had activated Google Buzz (
) before the privacy updates.
Now in a renewed effort to correct its gaffs, the search company is going to ask all Google Buzz users to confirm (or change) their Buzz settings. This will be
gradually rolled out tomorrow, but the result will be that every user will be prompted with a confirmation page the next time they click the Buzz tab.
It will look something like this:
The page isn’t anything new — it’s really just the Google Buzz settings page. How
ever, Google’s taking a step in the right direction by giving every user a big opportunity to change their privacy settings. It had to be done.
While tomorrow’s move won’t fix the damage that has already been done, perhaps it’ll help get Congress off of its
back. If it can appease critics on the privacy issues, then it can tackle the bigger challenge: making Goo
gle Buzz into a competitive threat to Twitter () and Facebook (
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