Google To Buzz Users: Are You Sure You’re Not Oversharing?

When Google announced its big jump into the social stream with the launch of Google Buzz back in February, the company thought it was doing everyone a favor by having users auto-follow the people they emailed and chatted the most with. That was a mistake , and the heat was turned on quickly by the broad press , vocal users and privacy pundits. Two days after launching ( prematurely ), Google tweaked the product to make it clearer for new users what was going on behind the scenes when they click the 'Buzz' tab, and they made even more changes two days after that. But those changes only affected new users, and not the - reportedly - millions of people who gave it a whirl in the first four days after launch. Later today, Google will start prompting all existing users to review their existing privacy settings upon launching the service.