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Google apologized on Saturday, saying it has made several changes to its new social-networking application Buzz to allay privacy concerns.

Google’s Buzz, which debuted last week, is closely entwined with its Gmail service.

The company leveraged a person’s address book contacts to create an immediate social network for Buzz, which is designed to let people post and share content in a fashion similar toFacebook or Twitter.

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Buzz automatically followed some of a person’s contacts, which “led people to think that Buzz had automatically displayed the people they were following to the world before they created a profile,” wrote Todd Jackson, a Google product manager.

The feature drew fire since it was viewed as making it easier to determine who a person contacts frequently using Gmail.

“The underlying issue is that your e-mail and chat contacts are not necessarily people you want to advertise as friends via a public social network,” wrote Kurt Opsahl, a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on Friday.

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