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Google makes bid to hold all your data
GIANT BORGSTER Google is hatching a cunning plan which will have it store all your hard drive data on its servers, a report in the Wall Street Journal claims.
The Journal (sub needed) said Google will let people put all their files including documents, vid clips and images on its servers in a spooky replay of Larry Ellison's cunning plan of the 1990s. Ellison said then our data would be safer on his servers than on our own machines.
Apparently it wants to give people a chunk of storage where they can bung all their crap and presumably use its mini-apps to access the stuff.
The egregious outfit already indexes the world+dog but let's face it, who wants to allow a multinational giant with a somewhat dodgy record on China to be the custodian of well, everything connected with a computer.
No doubt many will go for it. And it would certainly allow for the creation of very cheap devices with bills of materials (BOMs) that make an OLPC seem like a very expensive luxury. µ
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Nobody gets my data. Not Google, not the government, nobody.

Not if I can help it anyway.
who gives a flying pig, let em have it.
and get a 500GB hard drive for all your data and KEEP your privacy!

And while 500GB might not be enough for some people's media collection do you really want the RIAA coming after you for 'posting' your music on the web? Sure it's just a storage vault but the media maffia never misses and opportunity to try to make a buck...just ask that dead 'music pirate' they tried to sue!

Are the good people at google aware of what a general internet user's uploadspeed is? (and REAL downloadspeed)
And how much data people collect on their TB drives?
And how it's basically illegal to store other people's copyrighted data on a 3rd party's server?
And how even if people had the patience to upload and download all their rubbish and all did that it would clog internet to a standstill?
And that in this century trusting others with your data is as reliable and smart as using a hairdryer in the bathtub?
W.-,... if you knew anything of law... or current technology.. all of what you just said is null and void. You buy space, its yours to keep. IPA (internet privacy act) would cover whatever is in there unless there is a disclaimer on their site saying they have access to it. They'll probably have bandwidth allotments so you can't just use it as a server... etc. I'm sure they've been through all of this

I'd like this if they made everyone's files accessible to everyone else (after all, if you're making them accessible to Google why not). 

Having a 100GB web-space of uploaded photos and shareable files would be nice. 

In fact they'd become the ISP of choice and then the whole WWW would end up inside Google...