Google coughs up $8.5 million to settle Buzz privacy suit

arstechnica.com — Google has settled a class-action lawsuit over Buzz, and has agreed to a $8.5 million payout which will help fund groups that focus on privacy issues. Sep 4, 2010 View in Crawl 4

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noctrnl Sep 4, 2010

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I still hope this FINALLY takes off. In spite of all the bugs it is a better friend feed.

fusong Sep 5, 2010

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8.5 mill is not that much for google

oboy Sep 5, 2010

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$8.5 million. Google makes that in just under 4 hours on adwords alone.

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fusong Sep 5, 2010

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hehe, that's right..

onreact Sep 5, 2010

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Yeah, other people's privacy is a cheap commodity it seems.

elwoodblues Sep 5, 2010

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That's about how much Kevin got paid to sell out digg....
watch this get down voted/censored by the digg management...

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Closed Account Sep 5, 2010

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i'm not management. I'm just downvoting you because you suck

onreact Sep 5, 2010

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Settled for peanuts.

subsane2k Sep 5, 2010

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Here's the thing... I've been visiting digg for a long time; sans account.

Sadly; this whole corporate-sellout and spam-news-feed (like this article) totally kills any interest... but happily, reddit seems the solution.

So hey, I finally get off my ass, and create an account, just to say...

Account closed.

(I wonder how many other lurkers were out there like me?)Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.

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oboy Sep 5, 2010

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DolanMcElmurry Sep 5, 2010

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this shows the world about google/sad/but true.
They should of never caved in.

Don't the Privacy people get it?

the very 1st time you log onto the Internet your "PRIVACY" is
NO MORE
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NO MORE

designersdigest Sep 5, 2010

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Another blow to Google but i am sure they too are concerned about their users and fans privacy.

noctrnl Sep 5, 2010

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I wonder if the real issue here is how cheap was someone willing to settle. Sometimes there are things people are not willing to allow in discovery. As was just mentioned on the first segment of today's, "The Tech Guy" It would be nice if we saw settlement or some discovery from the Major ISPs. The way they are devaluing hard line internet for non-net-neutral wireless I think we might be losing the war without knowing how.