I follow Lauren on plus, and also on buzz, and we have discussed privacy stuff a lot. The way I look at it, unless you want to host everything yourself, you have to choose "someone" to be your Unix like home directory in the cloud. Of all the internet entities out there, Google has had the best track record of protecting your data. You can even download it all and erase yourself if you want out. Apps accounts and pseudonym accounts are coming soon. It was announced by Vic himself at web 2.0. I need to send that post by Lauren to the gmail account. He always finds good issues. It could be that I am off base. On Oct 23, 2011 4:04 PM, "Jay Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
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From: "Jeroen Massar" <jeroen@unfix.org>
On 2011-10-23 19:43 , steve pirk [egrep] wrote:
Just about everything on Google pages is https these days, even search if you enable it.
(or just use https://encrypted.google.com which is available for quite some time already)
Note that Lauren Weinstein has just put out a Privacy Digest posting noting that the referer behavior differs between https://encrypted.google.com and https://www.google.com in a way that implies that, again, someone at Google may not have gotten the Don't Be Evil memo...
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000906.html
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