Google Buzz Class-Action Privacy Suit Settled; No Money to Users, But $8.5M Fund Established

Google announced via a mass email on its Gmail service that it reached a settlement in a class-action suit over privacy concerns with its Google Buzz social component to Gmail. Users of its email service will not receive compensation, but the search-engine giant will commit $8.5 million to an independent fund to support Internet privacy education. The Google Buzz email:

Google rarely contacts Gmail users via email, but we are making an exception to let you know that we’ve reached a settlement in a lawsuit regarding Google Buzz, a service we launched within Gmail in February of this year.

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