James Temple of the San Francisco Chronicle blogs that Google’s departure from its usual iterative, customer attentive release philosophy has earned the company a class action lawsuit on top of widespread derision. “A class action complaint filed in San Jose federal court alleges that Google Inc. broke the law when its controversial Google Buzz service [answer to a question nobody asked] shared personal data without the consent of users,” Temple writes. The suit relies in part on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Up until now there have been Google and Gmail features that I celebrate, ones that I help improve and ones that I ignore. Buzz became the first that I loathe.