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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – An cyberspace concealment assemble that prodded U.S. regulators to scrutinize Google Inc is miffed most getting revilement discover of a collection state deciding over the search behemoth's Buzz social network.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center objected to the deciding in a suite filing this week, claiming Google and others had definite to money groups already benefiting from the company's largesse.

EPIC, led by prominent concealment advocate Marc Rotenberg, filed a complaint with the agent Trade Commission last year, locution Buzz threatened the concealment of Gmail users. Google settled with the FTC on weekday and united to autarkical concealment audits.

Google had also united last assemblage to resolve a removed collection state causa brought by a Gmail user. Part of that care provided for over $6 meg to go to groups advocating for cyberspace concealment issues.

EPIC had requested $1.75 million. And patch Google and litigator lawyers doled discover money to groups same the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Brookings Institution, EPIC did not intend a cent.

EPIC and a containerful of another groups objected in a suite filing Wednesday, locution the majority of funds would be allocated to groups that "receive support from Google for lobbying, consulting, or kindred services."

However, EPIC did not specify which of the groups provided lobbying services. Rotenberg did not respond to questions most the suite filing.

A Google representative declined to comment, patch litigator lawyers could not be reached.

The suite should reject a care "that encourages organizations to stand by quietly patch others do the actual work of safeguarding cyberspace privacy," EPIC said in its filing.

The case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of Calif. is In Re Google Buzz User Privacy Litigation, 10-672.

(Reporting by Dan Levine; Editing by Richard Chang)

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