Users of Google Reader might be surprised to find out that anytime they "like" a post, they might be sharing this publicly with at least everyone else that reads that post.
I certainly was.
All posts in Reader now come with a list of everyone that likes it - a link to their public Google profile is shown on the post itself.
I don't think this is good default behavior, but the worst part is yet to come. Google requires that you have a public profile in order to use a number of different services - I created mine because I wanted to share custom feeds in Reader. To address privacy concerns, Google lets you make your public profile anonymous; displaying a nickname rather than your real name. This is what I had done.
Well, sometime between me creating my anonymous public profile and Google introducing the like feature in Reader, they de-anonymized my public profile. It was only because I liked a friend's blog post and he emailed me in response that I ever found out.
Everything related to Google Buzz is a privacy disaster.
At least I wasn't 'liking' all the porn they were recommending to me.
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