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February 9, 2006

All Your Data Are Belong To Google (the latest chapter)

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Posted by Tom Mighell

The latest version of the Google Desktop is out, and among its newer features is the ability to "search across computers." Let's say you have a computer at work, a laptop you use for travel, and a PC at home. If you have the Google Desktop installed on all three computers, you can enable the "search across computers" feature, so that if you're at work and you need something from a Word document at home, you can search for it. But to be able to do that, your data has to reside on Google's servers.

The feature is turned off by default, your data is encrypted online, you can delete all the data on the Google servers with a click of a button, and Google is falling all over itself to ensure its users that their private data will remain private. I'll be interested to see how many people really take advantage of this new feature.

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1. Rob Hyndman on February 9, 2006 5:12 PM writes...

The ethical issues for attorneys re Google having access to their clients' information (yes, encrypted, but how exactly would that work?) - under a mere license to boot (and not a custodian's NDA, for example) - are interesting, yes?

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