Have you ever been naked in front of someone? Will you do it to any passing member of the public?
The fact that you trust someone with something doesn't make it that you will trust anyone.
I don't have anything on my body to hide to my SO, still won't be nude in front of you.
The thing that need to change isn't questioning whether you have anything to hide, it's whether you trust the people involved and on the internet it's a concept so hard for people to grasp. Believe me, whatever Google has access about me, I trust them with it, or else I wouldn't have handed them that information. If there's any single piece of information (or aggregate of information) that you wouldn't trust them with, don't put that there, and that include all the service OP put on his blog post.
Personally getting rid of my Google accounts is something I'm slowly working toward, not because of any privacy issue, but because of how they proved that they can't be trusted to keep your account up, and that would screw me up quite a bit more than them abusing my privacy I let them have.
The fact that you trust someone with something doesn't make it that you will trust anyone.
I don't have anything on my body to hide to my SO, still won't be nude in front of you.
The thing that need to change isn't questioning whether you have anything to hide, it's whether you trust the people involved and on the internet it's a concept so hard for people to grasp. Believe me, whatever Google has access about me, I trust them with it, or else I wouldn't have handed them that information. If there's any single piece of information (or aggregate of information) that you wouldn't trust them with, don't put that there, and that include all the service OP put on his blog post.
Personally getting rid of my Google accounts is something I'm slowly working toward, not because of any privacy issue, but because of how they proved that they can't be trusted to keep your account up, and that would screw me up quite a bit more than them abusing my privacy I let them have.