<story><title>Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz</title><url>http://fugitivus.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/fuck-you-google/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>goodside</author><text>Recklessness and lack of foresight doesn&apos;t make you inhuman. If you forwarded this post back in time to the Buzz engineers, they would try to fix it before launch -- not laugh maniacally at the thought of an innocent woman fearing for her safety.</text></item><item><author>rwhitman</author><text>There are clearly no longer any humans working at google, just one giant heartless inhuman machine calling the shots...&lt;p&gt;Or at least thats how Google looks to the public these days. If thats the perception they want, they got it.&lt;p&gt;I think this Buzz privacy fiasco is an historic lesson in the convergence of humanity and software and the lesson learned is that privacy of personal relationships should be a fundamental right</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tom_rath</author><text>Time travel would be spiffy, but how easy is it to contact the Buzz engineers now?&lt;p&gt;If you&apos;ve ever dealt with Google &quot;technical support&quot; (even if you&apos;re a customer who shovels them buckets of cash each week) you&apos;ll find that it&apos;s nearly impossible to reach an actual human being who can help you.&lt;p&gt;Convoluted as it is, getting a blog post ranked top in Hacker News seems the easiest (only?) way to get a genuine Google issue addressed.  I hope they address this one AND create an actual means of contacting the people who are supposed to be running the place.</text></comment>
<story><title>Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz</title><url>http://fugitivus.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/fuck-you-google/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>goodside</author><text>Recklessness and lack of foresight doesn&apos;t make you inhuman. If you forwarded this post back in time to the Buzz engineers, they would try to fix it before launch -- not laugh maniacally at the thought of an innocent woman fearing for her safety.</text></item><item><author>rwhitman</author><text>There are clearly no longer any humans working at google, just one giant heartless inhuman machine calling the shots...&lt;p&gt;Or at least thats how Google looks to the public these days. If thats the perception they want, they got it.&lt;p&gt;I think this Buzz privacy fiasco is an historic lesson in the convergence of humanity and software and the lesson learned is that privacy of personal relationships should be a fundamental right</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>petewarden</author><text>No, they wouldn&apos;t. I&apos;m saying this as somebody who built a product around identifying your &apos;inner circle&apos; from your email patterns[1]. The part I spent the most time on was figuring out how to protect people&apos;s privacy, and these scenarios were painfully obvious even to me.&lt;p&gt;Plenty of people at Google &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; to have thought this through, but decided the benefits to adoption of the current process outweigh the privacy problems that will happen to some people. That&apos;s pretty evil in my book...&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.mailana.com/demoday/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://web.mailana.com/demoday/&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>