Using Google To Store Data

Poll

Many people are using Gmail and Google Apps to store their data. How much do you trust Google to store your data? [156 votes total] Don't store any data using Google or other web services (56) 36% Use Google and trust it to store all my data (24) 15% Use Google, but concerned about privacy: store only non-sensitive data (46) 29% Use Google, but concerned about reliability: do additional backups (18) 12% Use another web-based service to store my data (please comment) (12) 8%

ATRL, healthcare data
We have strict guidelines to maintain the privacy of individuals whose healthcare data I analyze. I would never put it on Google or any system outside our hospital network.

Editor, Privacy and Google
Part of the special privacy concern with Gmail is that to display relevant ads they scan email content; Yahoo or MSN do not display ads based on email content, at least so far.

Karl Rexer, stored data
Anyone sending attachments using a web-based email system (e.g. Yahoo) is saving some information on these systems.