Outgoing Federal Trade Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour blasted Google Buzz during the agency’s privacy workshop March 17. The FTC should stop imploring and start pushing policies and privacy controls into legislation. Require high-tech companies to vet Web services that potentially infringe on user’s rights. However, Harbour is correct in arguing Google, Facebook and others developing services where user privacy is a factor should stop releasing the features before they are sure they will pass the privacy acid test.
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What grinds my gears about the current miniwave of backlash over Google Buzz is that it seems like a lot of psychoanalysis
after the fact.
Outgoing Federal Trade Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour
blasted Google Buzz during the agency’s privacy workshop March 17. A little St.
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