Google's Buzz has drawn two privacy lawsuits, a request for a Federal Trade Commission investigation and some pointed criticism by lawmakers. Now, information revealed by Buzz about Andrew McLaughlin, Deputy Chief Technology Officer for the Obama administration and former Google lobbyist, has spurred Consumer Watchdog -- which opposed McLaughlin's appointment -- to file a Freedom of Information Act request for McLaughlin's emails.

Facebook has made a trove of data about its members available to anyone who knows how to use a search engine. But the social networking site doesn't seem to want people slicing and dicing that data for their own purposes.