Auto configuration should be in the most protective mode to the user, and if someone wants a less protective configuration, just go to the settings and change them. There are too many people out there and very near you that doesn’t understand very well what they are doing with a social network.
I want to share here with you some of my concerns about privacy with Buzz and with social networks in general. The problem is that with social networks, people share not only their own staff, but things that involve other people too (like photos), and they do this in an automatic way to "all their friends" because of the simplicity of not start selecting people (and many times making them public without knowing), and sometimes that staff shared with so many people can generate a real-life problem to the people that appear in that staff (maybe in that moment, maybe some day in the future). That can go from labor problems to bulling to family violence (and I know some real cases), and that’s because the world is not so big and the circles are very narrow. The problem is not the C.I.A. or someone in the other part of the world but your boos, your violent ex-husband, etc.
I have post some ideas in the google moderator page about this privacy issues that i want to share with you. I'm a bit amazed that some people have vote against them since they all would be opt-in features in the general settings, so it's not like "remove that feature" suggestion, that if you like that feature, i understand that you vote against it, but opt-in settings doesn't remove anything to anybody. In any case, this is a free on-line world, so just do whatever you want.
1) Public Buzz as a separate option:
http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=4cd8&t=4cd8.40&q=4cd8.1dc7e
Instead of public a private option, put "all my followers" or "some" and in a separate place a check in for public post. Most people think public="all my followers" and make public things that don't want.
2) Anonymous public profile
http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=4cd8&t=4cd8.40&q=4cd8.1d44b
Let me have an anonymous public profile but with info to my contacts. I would be able also to use different info to different groups of contacts.
3) Anonymous contact list of contacts:
http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=4cd8&t=4cd8.40&q=4cd8.1e26d
Let me an option to appear as anonymous in my contacts list of contacts to other people. I don't want to be able to be find in my friends list of contact by my boss (for example)if my friends make public their list of contacts. My boss would see the list and in the end anonymous (5).
4) Blur my face:
http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=4cd8&t=4cd8.40&q=4cd8.1d1c2
If someone posts a photo with me in it, use the face recognition system to blur my face to the followers that i don't have contact with and of course do the same if the post is public. I don't know if Buzz has face recognition (facebook does), but google has the technology in picassa and they applied it in street view. Of course my friends would see the photo with no blur, and if in the photo is a person that i don't know and he has choose to blur his face, i would see his face blurred.
5) Hide my name:
http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=4cd8&t=4cd8.40&q=4cd8.1bcba
The same method applied to the photos but to my name. If someone post a buzz with my name or nickname in it, change my name with ****** to the followers that i don't have contact with and of course do the same if the post is public.
Now, just vote if you like them or call me a privacy paranoid, but please, don’t vote against them if you don't like them, you don't win anything.
Thanks for your attention and forgive my English (it's not my native language).
I want to share here with you some of my concerns about privacy with Buzz and with social networks in general. The problem is that with social networks, people share not only their own staff, but things that involve other people too (like photos), and they do this in an automatic way to "all their friends" because of the simplicity of not start selecting people (and many times making them public without knowing), and sometimes that staff shared with so many people can generate a real-life problem to the people that appear in that staff (maybe in that moment, maybe some day in the future). That can go from labor problems to bulling to family violence (and I know some real cases), and that’s because the world is not so big and the circles are very narrow. The problem is not the C.I.A. or someone in the other part of the world but your boos, your violent ex-husband, etc.
I have post some ideas in the google moderator page about this privacy issues that i want to share with you. I'm a bit amazed that some people have vote against them since they all would be opt-in features in the general settings, so it's not like "remove that feature" suggestion, that if you like that feature, i understand that you vote against it, but opt-in settings doesn't remove anything to anybody. In any case, this is a free on-line world, so just do whatever you want.
1) Public Buzz as a separate option:
http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=4cd8&t=4cd8.40&q=4cd8.1dc7e
Instead of public a private option, put "all my followers" or "some" and in a separate place a check in for public post. Most people think public="all my followers" and make public things that don't want.
2) Anonymous public profile
http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=4cd8&t=4cd8.40&q=4cd8.1d44b
Let me have an anonymous public profile but with info to my contacts. I would be able also to use different info to different groups of contacts.
3) Anonymous contact list of contacts:
http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=4cd8&t=4cd8.40&q=4cd8.1e26d
Let me an option to appear as anonymous in my contacts list of contacts to other people. I don't want to be able to be find in my friends list of contact by my boss (for example)if my friends make public their list of contacts. My boss would see the list and in the end anonymous (5).
4) Blur my face:
http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=4cd8&t=4cd8.40&q=4cd8.1d1c2
If someone posts a photo with me in it, use the face recognition system to blur my face to the followers that i don't have contact with and of course do the same if the post is public. I don't know if Buzz has face recognition (facebook does), but google has the technology in picassa and they applied it in street view. Of course my friends would see the photo with no blur, and if in the photo is a person that i don't know and he has choose to blur his face, i would see his face blurred.
5) Hide my name:
http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=4cd8&t=4cd8.40&q=4cd8.1bcba
The same method applied to the photos but to my name. If someone post a buzz with my name or nickname in it, change my name with ****** to the followers that i don't have contact with and of course do the same if the post is public.
Now, just vote if you like them or call me a privacy paranoid, but please, don’t vote against them if you don't like them, you don't win anything.
Thanks for your attention and forgive my English (it's not my native language).
