[dump121]

Are people really concerned of privacy, or just witch hunt against some companies? Bigger privacy threats I see are always tracking, always listening device we keep in pocket, which sends it all to cloud. Still I see know serious effort to mitigate that, efforts by like of Firefox/Ubuntu are dissed as distractions.

Developers on HN regularly proclaim wonders of Chromebook/Google Docs without any corresponding rhetoric about privacy.

[gavinpc]

Regarding this question about a "witch hunt". What would a legitimate objection to an institutional practice look like?

Would it not be a witch hunt against Google if people here complained about Google Docs? Would it not be a witch hunt against facebook if people here also complained about Google Docs?

I'm putting "witch hunt" on my list of stop words. I don't see the phrase being used in utterances that move a discussion forwards.