document: Winners in Google Buzz Suit : ACLU and YMCA , Not Privacy Group - Digits The likely winners of money in a privacy lawsuit related to Google Buzz include groups ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to the YMCA of Greater Long Beach -- but not the organization that actually brought the matter to the attention of the Federal Trade Commission . Reuters Google co-founder Sergey Brin at the unveiling of Buzz in 2010 Back in September , Google agreed to pay $ 8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that the Buzz social-networking service violated users ' privacy . This week , lawyers in the case agreed to a list of 12 organizations that would divvy up that money . Most prominent on the list are the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation , both of which will get $ 1 million , as well as the University of California at Berkeley , which will get $ 900,000 divided among two of its technology-law projects . The Long Beach YMCA will get $ 500,000 to educate young people about privacy , and a small group called Youth Radio will get $ 50,000 for similar work . But some major privacy groups did n't make the cut , and they and several of the plaintiffs have filed objections asking the court to take another look . Among them : the Electronic Privacy Information Center , which submitted a complaint about Google Buzz to the FTC in February . The complaint alleged that Google was violating users ' privacy by automatically exposing their email contacts when it launched its social-networking service . As part of the FTC investigation that stemmed from EPIC 's complaint , Google this week agreed to a consent decree that requires it to submit to privacy audits for the next 20 years , among other things . The lawsuit , which was filed in March , made similar allegations of privacy violations . The September settlement called for about $ 2 million to go to plaintiffs ' attorneys and the rest to go to organizations focused on Internet privacy or privacy education . The settlement agreement said Google and the attorneys should '' `` mutually agree '' '' on recipients of the money . In its objection , EPIC says the attorneys in the lawsuit relied on the organization 's work but then excluded it from getting any settlement award money . '' `` There has never been , nor is there likely to be '' '' an applicant '' `` who is more deserving of an allocation from a settlement fund , '' '' the organization wrote in its filing . Google declined to comment on the matter . EPIC did not respond to requests for comment on its complaint . One of the attorneys in the class-action suit said they would file a response to the court next week . Those who are objecting also point out that half the groups getting money in the settlement already are partially funded by Google . One of the recipients , the Stanford Center for Internet and Society , '' `` receives so much money from Google that it has actually agreed to refrain from all litigation involving Google , '' '' three plaintiffs write in their objection , pointing to the Stanford center 's own online documentation . These issues raise '' `` red flags , '' '' the objectors say , suggesting that Google sought to keep money from certain privacy groups it found problematic and funnel money to other organizations . '' `` EPIC did the hard legal work which led to the investigation , '' '' said Jeffrey Chester , director of the Center for Digital Democracy , another group seeking funds from the court . During negotiations this fall on the settlement , he says , '' `` Google was aware it was in the final stages of having to swallow an elaborate and far-reaching '' '' FTC ruling brought on by EPIC . '' `` Why would you want critics to get funding ? '' ''
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