Google announced Google Data Liberation Front together with a new website about a week ago. The point of the new programme is freedom to act with your personal data stored in Google applications. You may became incognito for Google from now on grabbing out all your data recorded in AdWords, Blog, GMail etc. Can we find something interesting behind this nice – from the first glance – twist made by Google?

1. The idea seems very humane. The data becomes liberated and owner is free to do with it whatever he wants.

2. But there is another question, which is incomparably more important than the matter in itself: does liberated data mean, that it still remains personal? Ooops.

3. Is it more important for me to move securily my data among different systems (yes it is!), or to move it really privately? The second half of the question remains as the base, personally for me.

4. The concept of “free” data on internet has to be obligatory for every service we can find on web. But it is insufficient. The data must remain private.

5. But it is impossible to achieve. I do not believe that a message once sent to the address located somewhere in the internet could remain personal. World wide web is too wide to keep secrets. If you really want, whisper your secret to the hole of mountain or of the tree.

Tags: data liberation, free data, google applications, personal data, private data, secure data

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