We’re all used to announcements like this from Facebook … but it seems that Google isn’t immune to raising security concerns either. I basically trust Google with my digital everything because I believe in the company, its unofficial slogan, and its track record. It behooves, however, us to not become too complacent!

After reading this article, I made the manual change that the article describes and agree that it should have been an opt-in thing, not an automatically applied change which we must opt-out of to avoid. On the other side, at least I received an email from Google and didn’t have to sort through the Terms of Use to understand what was going on.

Read the Reuters article ».