signor_john - 3:07 pm on Dec 15, 2009 (gmt 0)

wait, what?....... please say you don't actually believe that.

No, but a surprising number of people did. Paranoia existed in the horse-and-buggy days of the 1990s, too.

Mind you, nobody ever explained what Microsoft was going to do with all the data that it supposedly was downloading from people's hard drives. The same goes for Google's smart phone: Too much data, too little time. :-) (Not to mention the fact that the user's locations, calls, etc. are being tracked by an independent, unbundled phone carrier, not by Google or by a carrier partner like Apple's AT&T.)