Not so busy, not so productive

[altivo]

I actually took a nap in the middle of the morning today. Because I felt like it (or felt bad enough) but it's very rare for me to be able to sleep in daylight even for a few minutes, let alone a full hour

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[altivo]

The really OBNOXIOUS thing about what Google did was that automatic profile creation business. They joined you to other people and other people to you, based entirely on an automated examination of your e-mailing habits. If you ever doubted that Google is tracking what you do, now you know. Worse, once they made those connections, ANYONE could see who you had been e-mailing by just following you on Buzz, even if you weren't actively using Buzz yourself. This sort of thing is just inexcusable.

Worse, they still don't seem to understand that this was a big blunder, or a violation of privacy, or anything wrong. Their "apology" says nothing of the sort, just that they'll act differently in the future. Even there, they appear to plan on continuing the same default behavior. The only difference is that they will "ask you" first. But how many people question the defaults when starting a new application? How many actually read those reams of agreements, including the privacy disclosures? Google did originally issue some very weakly worded "warnings" about the consequences of activating Buzz, but didn't explain very well just what they meant. Worse, the warnings were issued only after they had already made those links (for some people, hundreds of them) and essentially, published them.

[schnee]

Yeah, indeed. I've got to say I really liked Google better when they were a search company - right now, it seems more like they're trying to become the private-sector version of the NSA.

[altivo]

Or worse, the corporate version of your maiden aunt, trying to engineer social contacts for you. ;p

[schnee]

*shudders*