But it's always possible that the encryption mechanism has a backdoor that lets Google peek inside, or that it's so weakly encrypted that it's trivial for someone to brute-force it. Neither behavior (Big Brotherism or shoddy coding) is traditionally associated with Google, but nonetheless, people are starting to become wary of the vast amount of information being sucked into the Google vortex.

Beneath Mark's trademark anti-Americanism, there's legitimate cause for concern.