Google wants your bits, but Why?

Last Thursday Google accidentally posted an unedited powerpoint presentation on its corporate news site announcing a new program which would allow subscribers to create a backup of your pc onto their servers.

Many questions have been raised regarding how google would handle security and privacy. As well, how would google offer this service to the public and how the file transfer would take place.

The service would allow for remote searching via the popular google desktop search. However, allowing a company to hold your data, forces you to give up a lot of rights and privacy, and been that law enforcement agencies have already gone after google's data, your data can potentially be searched.

The bottom line is that though the service sounds like a great idea at first hand, there are just too many unanswered questions for me to jump on this wagon. The search engine giant has offered a lot of useful products and they are usually ahead of the curve, but being that they are yet to figure out how to offer google analytics to the general public, I fear that this service would also be on hold for a long, long time.