IT Security & Network Security News & Reviews: Navigating the Google Buzz, Facebook Privacy Waters

The buzz around Google Buzz over the past week touched off a new round of discussions about privacy. Concerns about social networking are becoming an all too familiar fact of life for services like Facebook, Buzz and others. After taking some hits, Google made a number of changes to Buzz, perhaps drawing on lessons learned from the controversy surrounding Facebook's changes to its privacy controls late last year. Here at eWEEK, we have experimented with some of the privacy controls and features of Buzz and Facebook and came up with a list of things for users to consider as they approach privacy concerns on both sites.