Google Buzz may be an awesome tool but it has a very important privacy issue. Your followers information is publicly available, by default, in your Google profile, to everyone who visits your profile page. Follow links are also available so anyone can expand it's Buzz network in an easy way. This means that it's possible, and easy, for anyone to harvest YOUR PERSONAL contacts lists and of other people! By default everyone has access to everyone's follow list. Hiding the list of followers from your profile page is possible by editing your profile and uncheck the box next to "Display the list of people I'm following and people following me". Moreover the people you follow here in Buzz is the same you'll follow in Google Reader and vice versa. (Edit Profile URL: http://ping.fm/PBTyW)
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