Not even 24 hours had passed following Google’s sneak preview of its new social networking initiative — Google+ — before the grumbling began. Briefly, one of the key features of the service, which is still in field-test mode, is +Circles, which allows users to group people into different classes or categories such as work friends, family and so on. As people and reporters started playing with the features, it became clear that these Circles are hardly inviolate: Items can be shared! They can even, conceivably, be made public.
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Google+ Privacy Complaints - Faint Voices in the Wilderness?
Posted by: Erika Morphy June 30, 2011 03:39 PMNot even 24 hours had passed following Google’s sneak preview of its new social networking initiative — Google+ — before the grumbling began. Briefly, one of the key features of the service, which is still in field-test mode, is +Circles, which allows users to group people into different classes or categories such as work friends, family and so on. As people and reporters started playing with the features, it became clear that these Circles are hardly inviolate: Items can be shared! They can even, conceivably, be made public.