I do not have a dog in this fight.  However, my concern is with any
outsourced service or vendor upon which an organization relies for their
information services or hosting...; what if the vendor/service provider
goes belly up; bankrupt; merges; or is subject to a hostile takeover? 
Or..., gets a rogue managing partner.   Situations like these are when
frequent records/info-related mishaps occur.   Such as..., the new owner
or operating business partner decides, legal or ethical or not, to
"sell" the rights and provides access to mine data, documents, IDs, etc.
 Not right, not ethical..., however when $$$ are involved it can and
will probably happen.  Perhaps not with Google...; perhaps not right
now...; stuff happens.  Contact information is a commodity with value.

Look at the medical profession.  It is very normal for a retiring
doctor or clinic to "sell" medical records.   Happens all the time. 
Your (and possibly my) medical records and charts now in the hands of
someone who probably wants to sell us something.  

A professional association selling names, addresses, phone numbers, and
email IDs to organizations for mailing and targeted marketing purposes. 
Happens all the time; including by an organization some of we know.

Your state government dept. of motor vehicles selling driver license
information including images.  Happens all the time.

I hate paper.

Best regards, Steve
Steven D. Whitaker, CRM
Records Systems Manager; City of Reno

>>> [log in to unmask] 5/14/2009 12:45 PM >>>
All I can say is, show me the organization with as high availability
and
reliability as Google and many (though certainly not all) the other
SaaS...
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