I like google, but this is ridiculous

[Norm In Norman]

http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_02.php#004400

THE NEW GOOGLE DESKTOP CAN STORE YOUR FILES OUT ON GOOGLE'S SERVERS? Who the hell would agree to that?

[OklahomaTuba]

Maybe the chinese communist party wanted to see those files also?

[OU-HSV]

Yeah I heard something about this on the news yesterday and was like WTF, that's stupid.

[OklahomaTuba]

Meanwhile over at Yahoo, seems they have really taken a liking to bending over backwards to please the chinese dictators.

THE American internet company Yahoo! provided evidence to Chinese police that enabled them to imprison one of its users, according to allegations that came to light yesterday.

The disclosure marked the second time in months that the company had been accused of helping China to put someone in jail. Li Zhi, a civil servant, was imprisoned on charges of trying to subvert state power after he criticised corruption and tried to join the dissident China Democracy Party. ...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2033331,00.html#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=World

[Ike]

I heard about that (actually both of them) yesterday. funny how the EFF defends google on the one hand and then tells people not to use one of their tools on the other.

but being familiar with the EFF I'm really not that surprised.

As for Yahoo, I'm not surprised either. this isn't the first time they've done this.

[sooner_born_1960]

Norm, think of the money the state could save. You could store taxpayer information on google's servers instead of buying disks.

[Sooner_Bob]

That's scary . . .