Exactly. Google also sends all the data from all your contacts back to Google so they can publish it to the entire world including to China! (To that portion o

Exactly. Google also sends all the data from all your contacts back to Google so they can publish it to the entire world including to China! (To that portion of the world that knows your Gmail account and password, and if you were traveling in China and accessing your email account then yeah your contacts would also be transmitted to China.) I just can't believe the higher-quality clientele that used to be Hacker News are eating this up like this. I guess we're all human after all.