For everyone kvetching about Google Buzz, a few points worth raising
1. Doctors generally do not use standard email, but instead use the email of the hospital or medical practice they are associated with. Also, doctors and patients still communicate primarily face-to-face and via phone.
2. Someone trying to get out of a bad relationship who is foolish enough not to create a separate, private, sequestered email account for that express purpose is either not trying hard enough, or is trying to be caught.
3. The same goes for journalists (and let’s face it, this is the only point the media really cares about) communicating with “anonymous” sources via email. Come on. Do you think Woodward and Bernstein would have communicated with Deep Throat via Gmail? Give me a fucking break. Don’t insult my intelligence.
4. Google has proven remarkably responsive regarding privacy issues with Buzz so far, and there is no indication that this is either the finished product or that they will stop trying to improve it based on user input. Just as they have done with Gmail. And with the search engine that they started out with.
5. If all else fails, and you’re still feeling that the media’s self-serving screeching and panic-mongering about “privacy” (in this age where almost everybody has a cell phone, and apparently has no problem talking about highly personal issues in highly public places), then here’s a thing you can do: sign out of Gmail, and turn Buzz off. Then log back in. There. Problem solved. Wasn’t so hard, was it?
So what you’re saying is that we were asking for it and we shouldn’t have been dressed like that. Pshaw. Google has built up with all of an an expectation that our private information will be safe with them. When they fuck that up they should be hauled over the coals.
Kvetching? Fuck them for what they did and shame on you for blaming people here who have been victims.
No, I think he’s spot on.
I mean, that hooker last night - if she had tried harder she could have gotten through the maze. I think she secretly wanted to get caught by the dogs.
