An advocacy group for privacy on Tuesday posted a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against the new Buzz socialization service from Google with the argument that violates federal law to protect consumers.
The Center for the Electronic Privacy Information (EPIC by its initials in English) filed the complaint just days after Google Inc. amended the service to halt the growing expressions of concern about privacy.
Since the company launched the Buzz Google last week as part of the email service Gmail, Google has been criticized because it had created automatically public circles of friends to users based on more frequent contact them by Gmail.
At the weekend, Google changed the service only to suggest contacts to social networks of its users.
Despite the changes, said EPIC privacy infringements persist because Google automatically enroll users in the Gmail Buzz, instead of waiting for them to do, or "opt" for the service.
For now Google has given users the option to disconnect from the new service. Their recent changes also provide the users create a profile before your information is made public.
However, EPIC claims that the Federal Trade Commission requesting Google to become the Buzz into a service that is only option for the user.
The committee also seeks to prevent the company to use the Gmail contact book to compile lists of social networks.
"This is a serious infringement of privacy expectations of consumers," he said in a statement EPIC executive director Marc Rotenberg.
"Google should not allow that promotes the personal information of users in a social network if they have never asked for," he said.
In response to the EPIC complaint, Google said it has undertaken some changes to the Buzz in accordance with user feedback and has "more improved functions.
"We hope to hear more suggestions and continue to improve the experience of Buzz transparent to users and check that the service does not interfere with them," the company said.
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