With Google’s new social-networking platform Buzz drawing criticism due to privacy issues, the company Friday announced another change to the service – adding it to the November-released Google Dashboard.

Noting that the addition of Buzz to Dashboard will provide users the opportunity “to exercise choice and control over their information and their use of our products,” Google said in a blog post: “For Buzz, the Dashboard is another place to see how many people you're following, how many people are following you, and information about your recent posts as well as links to change your Buzz settings.”

Ever since the February 9 release of Buzz, it has been at the receiving end of the users’ ire due to the privacy concerns - prompting Google to tweak some controls of the service. On Thursday, Google introduced the option of turn off the service in the main “Settings” section.

Analyzing the reason why Buzz is being marred with complaints within days of its debut, a BBC study noted that Google’s pre-release tests of Buzz were probably less than sufficient – the service was tested only among the Google employees before it launched to the general public.

As such, either the insiders apparently failed to bring up the privacy concerns that were raised by Buzz users soon after the service’s launch, or else the Google engineers dismissed those concerns as baseless.