An important point that should be checked would certainly be if and when the plugin on its own tries to contact servers in the US, be they servers of Google or

An important point that should be checked would certainly be if and when the plugin on its own tries to contact servers in the US, be they servers of Google or of the other parties involved. If it doesn't, it deserves the attention of a more thorrough check. I really like the idea of this, but somehow have a longing for the world we lived in one year ago, when news of such a project would not have been "tainted" by attaching the name of Google to it. Sigh.