On Dec 26, 2007 10:41 PM, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 10:26:46PM +0530, Charles Haynes wrote:
> > If you have any proof otherwise I'd be interested in seeing it, since > > it would contradict my own personally observed subjective reality and > Your little piece of the mosaic, you mean. Eugen, could you please consider for a moment that I'm not trying to score points, that I might actually know what I'm talking about, and that I too am a person of good intentions? I'm not trying to say that Google's data retention policies will make every personal privacy advocate happy, but neither is the other extreme true - which is what your statement seems to imply. I'm not asking you to stop criticizing Google, or Google's data retention policies or practices. I'm just, in a relatively friendly way, trying to say that you're going overboard. Instead I might rephrase it as "You should behave as if Google or anyone else you deal with online retains your data forever." or "Even if you believe corporate claims on data retention, evaluate your own risks based on their capability, not their claims." by saying something as obviously hyperbolic as "Google never deletes anything" you risk a valid point being derailed by someone's pedantic objections to a rhetorical device. Cheers, -- Charles
