Dear Google:

Fuck. And. You.

"I would say that we did not understand how to communicate Google Buzz and its privacy," he says. "There was a lot of confusion when it came out on Tuesday and people thought that somehow we were publishing their email addresses and private information, which was not true.

"I think it was our fault that we did not communicate that fact very well but the important thing is that no really bad stuff happens in the sense that nobody's personal information was disclosed."

Hey, Eric Schmidt, I don't know about you, but I consider as personal information my google chat statuses, my email lists, who is in my group and the like.  I am personally aware of people whose use of gchat revealed some information (in this case participation in an online role play game) that they really really really didn't want their family to know about.  I discovered that my own attempts to keep the two halves of my internets life separate went flying out the window when person from group a suddenly could see people from group b. 

Confusion?  If by confusion you mean your users discovered that you don't give a flaming fuck about their privacy, then, yes, there was confusion.  Those statements are in direct contrast to actual user experiences.  Guess what trumps? 

Fuck you Google.  Fuck you sideways. 

h/t Alice H (sekrit to Alice - that other thing you want me to write about?  I'm working on it but I'm folding in some other stuff too)

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