Patriot Act Haunts Google Service

The Globe and Mail has an interesting piece taking a look at Google's latest headache, the US Government. Many people are suddenly deciding to spurn Google's services and applications because it opens up potential avenues of surveillance. "Some other organizations are banning Google's innovative tools outright to avoid the prospect of U.S. spooks combing through their data. Security experts say many firms are only just starting to realize the risks they assume by embracing Web-based collaborative tools hosted by a U.S. company, a problem even more acute in Canada where federal privacy rules are at odds with U.S. security measures."

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Re:Typical Near-Sighted Govt Policies

[Crypto Gnome]

And before you all whine that there's other hosted-app-services other than those supplied by Al-Qaeda the fact remains that the US considers all foreign services to be potentially hosted-by/supporting "the terrorists" - and therefore are worthy of "spying upon".