Love 'em or hate 'em, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has a great article about one potentially nasty aspect of
Google's newest desktop search software--it caches copies of your file on Google's server, where it could potentially
be subject to theft, subpoena, and any number of other privacy assaults. With all the recent talk about regulating VoIP
for wiretapping, the Google issue is prescient. We know Google is getting further into VoIP; we know their unique value
proposition for IP telephony apps will be search. Need I
say more?
1. This is kind of funny to me. A friend of mine keeps telling me that Google is more than just a search engine. He thinks they are Russains that are trying to take over the USA by tricking us into thinking they are here to help us and make the internet a better place for all of us. There are actually a lot of good points he brings up. http://www.true2ourselves.com/forums/
Posted at 1:33PM on Feb 14th 2006 by Tazeeyore