Canada's Privacy Commissioner Questions Google Buzz

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada is worried about the privacy implications of Google Buzz, the search giant's recently introduced social networking application.

Google Buzz adds real-time sharing features found on popular social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook to the Google Gmail service.

The problem: Buzz would more or less automatically add Gmail user's most emailed contacts as "followers".

More on the controversy:

• Wrong kind of buzz around Google Buzz (Evgeny Morozov, Foreign Policy, February 11, 2010)
• Google Buzz Already Raising Privacy Concerns (Connie Crosby, Slaw.ca, February 15, 2010)
• Privacy commissioner reviewing Google Buzz (CBC News, February 16, 2010)
• Latest privacy nightmare: Google Buzz in the Workplace (Privacy Compliance & Date Security blog by a Philadelphia law firm, February 16, 2010)
• A new Buzz start-up experience based on your feedback (Official Gmail Blog, February 13, 2010)