Feb 28 2011
Gmail Snafu
As a Gmail user, I found the recent story of Google mistakenly deleting millions of emails belonging to some 39,000 users to be frightening. It, along with the Flikr user who lost thousands of photos because of a mistake made by a Flikr staffer has me wondering how much we should be trusting these enormous companies with our information.
I would be furious to see everything of mine deleted after logging in. Thankfully most of my emails are stored on servers I can easily back up.