[Staffslug] Google and conspiracy theory...

Just lately the subject of personal data and Google has cropped up on another list I am on. Google, as we all know, do have some ambitious plans for its service. Some of which would indeed entail gathering a fair bit of user data. They obviously claim that this data will not be abused or left insecure... yeah right pull the other one. Anyway, I noticed this morning that, if you have GMail open they seem to have added a little bit to it. It's seemingly innocuous but I can't help but wonder. Look at the lower half of the Gmail screen. It gives you the details of how long ago your current IP address was last being used (presumably to connect to Google). As I say probably harmless... but is it. Have Google made sure that information is secure? I don't know and I haven't seen any details about it either. I don't know whether I can opt out of that data being bounced back to my screen. Just wondering :-) -- ============================================== Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Staffordshire