Don’t use Google toolbar

I have fowarded this to people in my company and felt it should be shared with others online as well. As you are probably well aware privacy issues to home consumers is one thing but when the information sensitive to a company is stored on anothers servers that is ASKING for trouble. Please take the time to follow the link and read the EFF's site on this. Thank you to the INQ for raising this issue.

"THE Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has warned that people should not download Google Desktop because it 'greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy'.

A spokesEFF said that if the toolbar chooses to use it, the new 'Search Across Computers' feature stores copies of the user's Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents on Google's own servers.

The EFF is concerned that it will make their personal data more vulnerable to subpoenas from the government, which has already shown an interest in what Google keeps on his server."