On December 2009, Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, declared after privacy concerns: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." I think this attitude towards privacy is immoral and careless as its diverting the attention away from themselves and trying to put the responsibility on the public. The General public should not be concerned with Google seeing where you visit on the internet, its what they do with that information and who they could possibly pass it on to that is concerning. In early 2005, the United States Department of Justice filed a motion in federal court to force Google disclose, "the text of each search string entered onto Google's search engine over a two-month period”. Also Google originally placed a cookie on each registered user's computer, which can be used to track that person's search history, and that cookie was not set to expire until 2038. While there is no evidence that Google turns over information to the national Governments, FBI or MI5, it does make you anxious using their services on a daily basis. Google’s fingerprints are all over data in Gmail, GoogleDocs and Maps. Maybe in your wiki you could have had a section “Can Google be trusted?”.
Jack