There is a huge privacy flaw in Google's new Twitter/Facebook competitor, Google Buzz.
When you first go into Google Buzz, it automatically sets you up with followers and people to follow.
A Google spokesperson tells us these people are chosen based on whom the users emails and chats with most using Gmail.
That's fine.
The problem is that -- by default -- the people you follow and the people that follow you are made public to anyone who looks at your profile.
In other words, before you change any settings in Google Buzz, someone could go into your profile and see the people you email and chat with most.
A Google spokesperson asked us to phrase this claim differently. Like this: "In other words, after you create your profile in Buzz, if you don't edit any of the default settings, someone could visit your profile and see the people you email and chat with most (provided you didn't edit this list during profile creation)."
Here is how to ffix it:
http://www.businessinsider.com/warning-google-buzz-has-a-huge-privacy-flaw-2010-2#after-clicking-buzz-on-the-right-inside-your-gmail-page-click-on-your-name-as-shown-1
