Maybe Google is priming itself for an aquisition by the DoJ.
There's gotta be some kind of technological solution to the problem of data centralization and privacy, without sacrificing usability.
Maybe desktop software will make a comeback as a solution. Javascript is already a client-side technology. Gmail could run entirely in Javascript 7.0, fetching and sending data in encrypted form from the GoogleDrive, and decrypting it entirely on the user's computer, with a user-supplied key.
There's gotta be some kind of technological solution to the problem of data centralization and privacy, without sacrificing usability.
Maybe desktop software will make a comeback as a solution. Javascript is already a client-side technology. Gmail could run entirely in Javascript 7.0, fetching and sending data in encrypted form from the GoogleDrive, and decrypting it entirely on the user's computer, with a user-supplied key.