Acoording to El Reg a PowerPoint presentation shown at the company's recent Analyst Day stated:
... With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including: emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc).We already have efforts in this direction in terms of GDrive, GDS, Lighthouse, but all of them face bandwidth and storage constraints today. (...) This theme will help us make the client less important (thin client, thick server model) which suits our strength vis-a-vis Microsoft and is also of great value to the user.
As we move toward the 'Store 100%' reality, the online copy of your data will become your Golden Copy and your local-machine copy serves more like a cache."
Speaking for myself, I don't want my personal data in the hands of anybody but me. Think of the implications for personal privacy - it's horrific! The US government have already tried to force Google to hand over search data, now imagine the situation five years from now with Google being forced to hand over information which includes your IM conversations, credit card purchases etc etc.
I have nothing to hide, but this is my PERSONAL information. It's bad enough that I can't fly to the States these days without Homeland Security getting all my information or that the British Police are considering installing number plate recognition cameras every 400 yards on our roads so they can see who's going where and when...
Big Brother is watching us everywhere we go - the question is, how closely? The great catch-all is that Bush and Bliar(sic) simply turn around and tell us "it's to stop terrorists" and that's the end of the conversation - perhaps it would help to stop terrorists if Dumb and Dumber instructed their lackies to actually arrest the suspects they have under surveillance - or is it politically advantageous to allow them to explode the odd bomb now and again, just to keep the general populace living in a state of fear?
Maybe I'm being a liitle too "Conspiracy Theorist", but then again - who can tell?
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