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Pseudos interdit. Google+ : Mark Zuckerberg soucieux de sa vie privée sur Internet ? 'We are Google's product, not its customers' With the beta release of Google+ this past week, the global tech community is already ruminating on how the new service might be a "game changer" for social media.

'We are Google's product, not its customers'

A plethora of new features - including a video chat platform for up to ten people - ensure that Google+ will be a success, at least in certain circles. Along with the initial excitement, concerns about the platform are arising, particularly around its privacy and user policies. In 2010, Google launched social platform Buzz, only to face a class action lawsuit over its exposure of users' email contacts (full disclosure: the organisation where I work, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was among the recipients in the settlement).