{"id":673559,"date":"2010-02-23T13:40:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T18:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002478"},"modified":"2010-02-23T13:41:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T18:41:54","slug":"google-says-it-will-ask-early-buzz-users-to-doublecheck-their-privacy-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/673559","title":{"rendered":"Google Says It Will Ask Early Buzz Users To Doublecheck Their Privacy Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/google_logo5_thumb-thumb-300x139-37343.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Wired reports that Google will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/epicenter\/2010\/02\/google-buzz-confirm\">offer a do-over to early users of Buzz<\/a>, the social network service that has earned the company criticism and a <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/google-buzz-subject-of-class-action-lawsuit.html\">class-action lawsuit<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Google has been accused of making it too easy to leak private info via Buzz, particularly <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/google-buzz-contact-sharing-not-just-potentially-embarrassing.html\">your list of contacts<\/a>. In order to keep that info secure, you had to opt-out of an auto-generated list when you first set up your Google public profile. Google now makes that list opt-in, but for early adopters who activated a profile before all the backlash started, you&#8217;ll soon be asked to re-confirm your choices. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/epicenter\/2010\/02\/google-buzz-confirm\">&#8220;Google Will Ask Buzz&#8217;s Early Adopters to Confirm Privacy Choices&#8221;<\/a> [Wired]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired reports that Google will offer a do-over to early users of Buzz, the social network service that has earned the company criticism and a class-action lawsuit. Google has been accused of making it too easy to leak private info via Buzz, particularly your list of contacts. In order to keep that info secure, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2PdR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}