joco - 4:20 pm on Jun 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

zCat,

The issue is that they're seeding the capability for a massive wrongdoing. They're making it 'ok' and even 'cool and trendy' for you to fork over 100% consumer data. Last time I checked, making my identity searchable to a clandestine private company was the last thing you were supposed to do.

Doesn't that bother anybody, at least on principle, that they're training everyone to be lazy with their identity? Maybe I've read too many Philip K. Dick novels but I think consumers deserve accountability and I don't see ANY coming out of Google . . . just promises that they're not going to 'do evil.' Hints too omenously of irony for my blood.