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Mathew's comments: Not being evil remains a challenge

Vanessa Williams · 2 years ago

I also found it a little surprising that Google was singled out as "the worst." Surely the others are no angels, either. More interesting in general is the recognition of the rising risks of using SaaS in inappropriate ways.

It's not that free (read: ad-supported) SaaS is universally bad, only that one should be mindful of what content one releases to which services and under what terms. Some things maybe do belong on an encrypted thumb-drive on your keychain and nowhere else (health records?) Or on your laptop's hard drive (that brilliant business plan you've been working on for months.) Landscape photos you took on your trip to the Grand Canyon? Flickr/Yahoo! can have 'em, right?