danah boyd is a doctoral candidate in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley and a Fellow at the Harvard University Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society. apophenia is her blog.
In this post, she relates a story from a friend of hers, who centralized virtually all of his online life (and therefore, his life) on Google products, only to have his account erased by Google because of a fraudulent phishing attack. The story raises concerns about storing all your data in one place and with one company.
tagged google cloud_computing internet_policy privacy digital_preservation
by steelej
...on 03-APR-08
Article from Harper's Magazine about how much Google's server farms are polluting a river in the Pacific Northwest.
Google Docs--but at what cost?


