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Google's Gdrive Raises Instant Privacy Concerns
An anonymous reader writes "The rumor mill is already raging over the potential functionality and capacity for Google's online storage service we talked about earlier this week (the company says 'it makes sense' to put all its Web apps under the same umbrella). But Internet rights advocates are now crying foul over liability issues, a probable lack of encryption and a cash-cow model that could scan all your personal data for advertising keywords. From the article: "'Google would be wise to offer users an option to encrypt your information,' says Nimrod Kozlovski, a professor of Internet law at Tel Aviv University. 'It really needs to have really detailed explanations of what the legal expectations are for storing your info.'""
Oooh, is there a sale on tinfoil these days?
Do they write these articles from scratch or do they have a program that just generates them from a template whenever Google makes an announcement?
Well, it has never been successfully tested.
Holy fuck. How did you afford the tinfoil for a hat THAT big?
Would that be called the "G-Spot"?
I'm not tense. I'm just terribly, terribly, alert.
Well hell, with a name like "Anonymous Coward" I can see why you would get picked on. My name got its share of yuks, especially since I wore coke bottle glasses* "Oh, mcgrew, you've done it again!"
But I really felt sorry for another kid in class, Charlie Salmon.
-mcgrew
* Coke bottles used to be made of very thick glass back before the stone age. Mr. Magoo was a nearaly blind cartoon character who was too vain to wear his glasses and unwittingly did good in every episode. Yes, I'm a geezer. I see they brought Charlie Tuna back.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Zimmerman? Was he the one that said "Privacy? Google?! Pssh!"?
GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
Note to self: get blog.
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