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Google has updated its desktop search tool, which can search your whole computer for specific files. Google Desktop 3 has a new feature that has raised some privacy concerns. The feature is aimed at making finding and sharing information simpler, especially for people who use a number of computers and need to access documents across them all. If you choose it, the new “Search Across Computers” feature will store copies of your word documents, PDF’s, spreadsheets and other test based documents on Google’s own servers, to enable searching from any one of the user’s computer. Internet privacy group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is urging people not to use this feature, “because it will make their personal data more vulnerable to subpoenas from the government and possibly private litigants, while providing a convenient one-stop shop for hackers who’ve obtained a user’s Google password.”
Do you use this tool? What do you think of it?
Greg Watson said,
June 16, 2008 @ 4:14 pm
Yeah, id say that’s probably not a good idea. I wouldn’t use it.
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