shri - 8:18 am on Apr 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

Brett -- I'd be all for it, if Google offered such services as a value add and I paid for them, with the assurance that my data would not be used for any other purpose. PLEASE .. no more "free features".

GoogleGuy -- While I'm sure the privacy policies of the other sites are just as weak as Google's (if not weaker), they're not an issue for me. None of those sites take my money or send me checks. Google being the market and opinion leader tends to get more scrutiny. That is the price to be paid.

Google needs to get its PR folks in proactive gear IMO..

A feature about the data that google has and what it does to protect it from abuse might have been a better lead into this and some of the other stuff thats been getting some flack. We're all happy to read about the lava lamps and Colin Powell walking into laundry rooms... but ....

After all, I'm sure there are perfectly legitimate reasons for collecting all this data .. ;)