philg's comment: "Folks: The problem with Google promising to hold “personal information” confidential is that a document may not meet the definition of “perso

philg's comment: "Folks: The problem with Google promising to hold “personal information” confidential is that a document may not meet the definition of “personal information” given in http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/faq.html#toc-terms-personal-info http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/faq.html#toc-terms-per... . For example, if you write down some ideas for a new product and keep it as a Google Doc there may be nothing in the document that identifies you as the author and therefore it might be okay for Google to read or distribute the document. Generally speaking the Google privacy docs address a separate issue from the question of keeping email or documents confidential. They are about the question of whether your identify is kept confidential when you’re browsing around the Web and Google is figuring out what your interests and demographics are. Worthy stuff to be writing about, no doubt, but it doesn’t shed much light on the subject of whether a Google employee can copy and paste paragraphs from your email messages or Google docs." http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2011/11/03/where-does-google-actually-say-that-they-wont-read-gmail-messages-or-google-docs/#comment-190817 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2011/11/03/where-does-goo...