and what evil has
google done? stolen my address book without telling me? enabled third party services to access private information about my google contacts?
🙂
For starters, made my profile public without asking me. Or even if it did, it must have been in some small corner of the T&C. Google loves information. One reason why FB and Google had to break up as the latter could not tolerate the fact that it was being only a donor and not a receiver in its equation with the former. Google has access to your mails - and in turn your financial documents on those IDs -, your contacts, your calendar, what you search - location, stuff etc. - it knows when and where you are traveling, what are your places of interest and God knows what else.
I thought so, I have never been comfortable sharing my details with Facebook.
They don't delete the data on users request and yeah! Annoying to an extent.
Do you know that mail you 'delete' from your GMail account does not necessarily get deleted? Google themselves doesn't guarantee that it will be deleted. The reason they give is technical complexity. Hardly believable for an incredibly technicallly competent company like them.
Even if a message has been deleted or an account is no longer active, messages may remain on our backup systems for some period of time. This is standard practice in the email industry, which Gmail and other major webmail services follow in order to provide a reliable service for users. We will make reasonable efforts to remove deleted information from our systems as quickly as is practical.
Gmail and privacy