Yeah, I cant wait to buy a Chromebook and have to turn ALL OF MY PERSONAL DATA over to Google for storage on their servers. We can trust Google, right?
I dont care if they give the Chromebook away for free. I’d never buy a product that required me to store my data in the cloud, whether its Google, Apple, Microsoft, or whoever.
Excellent point! I'm in the process of setting up 4 or 5 new PCs for a non-profit where I volunteer. If I can figure out how to do it, I will be banning GOOGLE.COM from our machines for exactly this reason.
A couple months ago, we published some information on our website that was a tad sensitive, at least to the person to whom it referred. I immediately removed the data from our website, but, thanks to their "we want to own everything ever published on any website anywhere in the known universe" policy, I can still get the information using a Google search and their "cached" pages.
I am sure that there are at least 3 or 4 privacy laws being broken here, but it appears that the Google boys must have pictures of people in high places within the government. They are getting away with stuff that even Bill Gates or Larry Ellison can't do.