Google's Trust Issue Won't Go Away
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I write a great deal about Google mostly because it is always trying new things and putting them out there for free for the world to try. The tools are easy to access and use from wherever you are--any device with a browser and an internet connection--and you can't beat the single-sign on across the tool kit, but for all it has going for it, Google has a major trust issue. Every time I write about Google the comments always include people who won't trust Google with their content ever.
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Just last Fall, in fact, Richard Stallman suggested that cloud computing in general was to him a stupid concept (as I wrote in Does Using GMail Mean You're Stupid?). Most likely, he feels this way because it takes the information on our computers out of our control and puts it into the control of corporations. Stallman has a point. Even though I think cloud computing is the future of computing, Google and other cloud vendors face a major trust issue and it's going to be hard to reconcile this...
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