Google Buzz vs. Privacy

I wish people were more skeptical of new Internet-based social technologies.  This article makes several good points:

[W]ithout you ever touching Google Buzz’s privacy settings, the entire world may know who you correspond with.

…I am extremely concerned about hundreds of activists in authoritarian countries who would never want to reveal a list of their interlocutors to the outside world.

It’s business decisions like this that make me very suspicious of Google’s highfalutin rhetoric about their commitment to defending the freedom of expression. … the ethics of such business decisions is extremely shoddy, to say the least. If Google executives are really committed to defending the freedom of expression, then they must be inhabiting a dreamworld, where freedom of expression somehow always survives despite horrendous attacks on privacy.

As far as I can tell, Google is being either naive, negligent, or incompetent.