Google’s business model assumes that people will entrust it with information about their lives. Google is a custodian of an intimate range of information about individuals. Despite Big Brotherish talk, Google today stores user’s photos, blogs, videos, calendars, e-mail, news feeds, maps, contacts, social networks, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and credit-card information—in short, much of their lives—on Google’s computers. And Google has plans to add medical records, location-aware services and much else. Google promises to behave and to keep ethical codes with our information even with their internal use for marketing reasons.
We need to think that Web 2.0 is all about including information for the Web. We need to know what is too personal to include.
