So I was reading an article on Mashable about 10 Nations sending an open letter to Google about Google Buzz and Google Street View being an invasion of their privacy. Now I advocate having the ability to turn off Google Buzz as I would advocate with any functionality nothing should be forced up people, but in reality it isn’t really forced upon anyone. There is nothing to say that you need to use anything in the Google empire, and correct me if I am wrong, but all the information that Google displays in your buzz feed is information that you as an individual has placed in some web service as public data. I am not sure how this is an invasion as this information is completely public and if you made it private it isn’t accessible to Google Buzz… and if the service doesn’t offer a privacy option perhaps that is something you need to take up with the service or stop using them. As far as street view, any photographer will tell you how many images of you there around in thousands of peoples homes across the world. When we step outside our houses or sign up to some app we need to learn to be responsible for what we do and say.

Moral of the story, check your privacy settings for things you don’t want “out there” and don’t do stupid things in public if you don’t want them document them and if you don’t like how someone is using your information, leave the service, don’t complain about it. Actions are louder then words. Let the rest of us who aren’t doing embarrassing/shameful things, or who don’t mind that we do so, take advantage of all the functionality something like Buzz or Street View offers.

No one is making you use any of this. If you don’t like it quit.