infact i was pondering/wondering: suppose google goes bankrupt (or whatever other reason it can decide to sell out the collected data), who can be the buyer?
Being illegal, it cannot be a "sell little pieces (who my partner sent email and instant messagging?) of information to many people". it would be a "one big sell to a big buyer". but who can buy all this information? well, the only possible buyer I can see is a government or secret agency (maybe a foreign one). ok i stop here, i'n the first who does not like complots theories.

It's even worse than that. As I posted on Paolo's thread, integrating the Google desktop with orkut would give Google unprecedented rights to use every file shared via the service.

http://www.aquick.org/blog/index.php?p=45