Now this is an interesting privacy related case to think about over the weekend, Google has to reveal viewing details for Youtube to Viacom.
Anyone who has EVER watched a Youtube video, that’s pretty extreme. Luckily most people are using dynamic IP addresses, so it shouldn’t be too much of a concern.
Unless of course they decide [...]

Google Enterprise has reacted to privacy concerns and released Google Desktop 3 Enterprise.
It responds to security concerns allowing full administrator control, letting them use the standard group policy settings to completely disable features, including the controversial Search Across Computers feature which you can read about in our original article.
Google Enterprise’s [...]

Google has offered multiple reasons why it shouldn’t have to comply with a Justice Department subpoena. One is privacy. An excerpt:
If Google is forced to compromise its privacy principles and produce to the Government on such a flimsy request, its search query and URL data, Google will, without a doubt, suffer a loss of trust [...]

With the advent of Web 2.0 and more powerful, user friendly web applications, security and privacy concerns have increased.
Moreso with the new version of Google Desktop coming out, although this is not strictly a web application, they will be storing your data online.
Yes, version 3 adds the ability to “access your documents from anywhere”, or [...]