Amol Kapila

The New York Times has published an article documenting the criticism that Google Buzz has received from privacy advocates:

Many users bristled at what they considered an invasion of privacy, and they faulted the company for failing to ask permission before sharing a person’s Buzz contacts with a broad audience. For the last three days, Google [...]

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 [...]