On Thursday Google is set to release Google Desktop 3.0 beta. Among many new features it will
allow users to move files from one PC to another.
Sending files from one PC to another is nothing new, whether via an IM application or some other
method. But in this case, users must agree to allow Google to store those files for up to 30-days!
Google is currently fighting a subpoena by the Justice Department to turn over search related information. It has raised many privacy questions and concerns, which in the long run, will be good. It will cause search engines to open up about what information they gather about users, search queries and for how long such information is stored.
But if Google wants us to feel safer about our data, this isn’t helping. My files are mine, and even if I would use their desktop application to move files, they have no reason keeping them for a single second
longer than it takes to complete the transfer.
This sounds, dare I say, very Microsoft. Google, please, stick to what you are good at.
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