True. Which is why I'd think twice switching email providers. Obviously you make a decision every time you give another entity any information, and storing da

True. Which is why I'd think twice switching email providers. Obviously you make a decision every time you give another entity any information, and storing data with Google/Facebook/et. al. carries risks as well. But, as others have pointed out, the concentration and nature of this information matters too. I'm reminded of the Veronica Mars episode about the "Purity Test" - Step 1: get everyone's socially valuable data Step 2: Hilarity/blackmail ensues Just to be clear - I'm not accusing the site of doing anything nefarious, just pointing out the difficulty of establishing trust. I suspect there's a lot of money to be made in figuring out how to bridge that trust gap (of course, that's a little bit like the various authentication or email trusted-sender schemes that float about - IF ONLY we could will some universally trusted and known-good structures into existence, certain problems would be that much easier to solve...)