If you also read another part of the policy[1] it states that: " We
conclude that we are required by law or have a good faith belief that
access, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably
necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of Google, its
users or the public." Meaning that they will only disclose your information if they have a good reason to, not just give it out whenever they want. I really don't see why people are so paranoid about this, Google is doing nothing illegal or even unethical. Does it really matter if another country knows about where John Doe lives or what he gets up to anyway? [1] http://www.google.com/privacy.html Technica Forensis wrote: I've read it. It says they can transfer my personal information to any other google location, including outside my country and that they can release that information if they are required to by the laws of that country. The privacy policy IS their way of informing you of what they collect and how they use it - no other contact with you is required.It's not Google that I don't trust - it's their host nations. Italian intel could compel Google to let them search all the Google user's personal information and suddenly Italy has their own version of Echelon that allows them to watch what their enemies are searching for, emailing, and now chatting about. How worried am I that something like this is actually happening? Just look at the domain that serves my email ;-) On 8/25/05, Justin Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>From what I have read it seems that Google can only collect personal information after asking you, as they say in this sentence: "When we require personally identifying information, we will inform you about the types of information we collect and how we use it." I suggest you read Google's Privacy Policy[1] properly before making any more accusations [1] http://www.google.com/privacy.html Technica Forensis wrote:I don't understand the big fuss over google talk.I think the fuss has to do with the 'Privacy' paragraph in the terms of service: "You agree that Google may access or disclose your personal information, including the content of your communications" and "Personal information collected by Google may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Google Inc. or its agents maintain facilities" Google itself is located in 11 locations in U.S. and: Dublin, Ireland London & Manchester, UK Sydney, Australia Toronto & Ontario, Canada Copenhagen, Denmark Paris, France Hamburg, Germany Bangalore & Hyderabad, India Milano, Italy Tokyo, Japan Amsterdam, Netherlands Madrid, Spain Stockholm, Sweden So, anything I say over gTalk will be stored and can be retreived by any of these countries. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/-- Justin Allen Software Developer Logical Developments Phone: +61 8 9458 3889 --------------040302010203000902010603 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Could you please state where it says: "You agree that Google may access or disclose your personal information, including the content of your communications" in the privacy policy?<br> <br> >From what I have read it seems that Google can only collect personal information after asking you, as they say in this sentence: "When we require personally identifying information, we will inform you about the types of information we collect and how we use it."<br> <br> I suggest you read Google's Privacy Policy[1] properly before making any more accusations<br> <br> [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.google.com/privacy.html">"http://www.google.com/privacy.html">http://www.google.com/privacy.html</a><br> <br> Technica Forensis wrote: <blockquote cite="" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I don't understand the big fuss over google talk. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><!----> I think the fuss has to do with the 'Privacy' paragraph in the terms of service: "You agree that Google may access or disclose your personal information, including the content of your communications" and "Personal information collected by Google may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Google Inc. or its agents maintain facilities" Google itself is located in 11 locations in U.S. and: Dublin, Ireland London & Manchester, UK Sydney, Australia Toronto & Ontario, Canada Copenhagen, Denmark Paris, France Hamburg, Germany Bangalore & Hyderabad, India Milano, Italy Tokyo, Japan Amsterdam, Netherlands Madrid, Spain Stockholm, Sweden So, anything I say over gTalk will be stored and can be retreived by any of these countries. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. 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