Comments on: Google’s Social Circle & Social Search May Not Violate Any Privacy Laws But It Gives Me The Creeps

By: 5 Reasons Google+ Is A Privacy Accident (Disaster?) Waiting to Happen | Librarian by Day

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:55:26 +0000

[...] talked about this when I wrote Google’s Social Circle & Social Search May Not Violate Any Privacy Laws But It Gives Me The Cr…. Google states they were basing my Social Circle and Social Search on my Google Profile, except I [...]

By: beautiful bytes – A social search explosion | beautiful world

beautiful bytes – A social search explosion | beautiful world — Thu, 19 May 2011 09:38:25 +0000

[...] lot of people have taken to speculating over the feature in forums and on blogs. Many seem adverse to the idea. Having searched the internet (ironically through Google which is a [...]

By: Top Ten 2.19: Leadership, Success, Facebook Shenanigans, The Shame of LA, and So Much More | Librarian by Day

Sun, 15 May 2011 22:06:38 +0000

[...] and it wasn’t until after I’d tweeted it that I learned that the PR firm referenced one of my blog posts in their attempts to smear Google! Crazy and Weird. Especially since I’ve written far more [...]

By: Facebook Smear Campaign Takes War Against Google to Defcon 2: Tech News and Analysis «

Thu, 12 May 2011 14:50:16 +0000

[...] was trying so hard to raise privacy fears about — has been around for over a year. Even the links that Burson Marsteller included in its pitch were to articles that were almost a year old, including one about how the feature was [...]

By: Siggy

Siggy — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:23:46 +0000

It really creeped me out too – I kept getting results from a blog written by a girl who used to harass me. I’ve not had any contact with her for years, although we have some common FaceBook friends. I don’t want Google to associate me with my FaceBook friends-of-friends that I haven’t spoken to for years, especially if they’re people I hate! Besides – If Google associates me with anyone, it should only be with people I’ve interacted with through Google – Gmail, Picasa, orkut and so on. I don’t know if me and that girl have ever had any connection or friend-of-friend connection on any Google product, but either way, I find it kind of creepy for Google to suddenly tell me who is in my “social circle”, especially when they are people I haven’t talked to in years – Not even everyone I talk to is in my “social circle”.

By: Google stalks you. Did you know? | jtGraphic

Google stalks you. Did you know? | jtGraphic — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:59:23 +0000

[...] view is more in line with Bobbi Newman, who says: “Google’s Social Circle & Social Search may not violate any privacy laws but it gives me… This is a lot like finding out that you have a stalker – only this one isn’t human, [...]

By: suzigurl

suzigurl — Fri, 14 May 2010 02:36:38 +0000

RT @librarianbyday: everyone is focused on Facebook’s privacy issues & it drives me CRAZY no one is talking about Google’s Social Searc …

By: annalynnmartino

annalynnmartino — Fri, 14 May 2010 00:26:55 +0000

RT @librarianbyday: everyone is focused on Facebook’s privacy issues & it drives me CRAZY no one is talking about Google’s Social Searc …

By: bareftlibrarian

bareftlibrarian — Thu, 13 May 2010 23:43:09 +0000

RT @librarianbyday: everyone is focused on Facebook’s privacy issues & it drives me CRAZY no one is talking about Google’s Social Searc …

By: elloyd74

elloyd74 — Thu, 13 May 2010 23:27:40 +0000

@librarianbyday Honestly? I hadn’t looked at it yet. You’re right. It IS creepy. (re Google Social Search)