[danso]

Never assume anything you send online is private. If the service isn't monitoring you, your friends are. And if not your friends, then the people who share your friends' computers, or anyone who comes into possssion of it, have he potential to expose your communications.

And while this has always been the case ever since letter writing, electronic communication is so much easier to parse and distribute and copy on bulk.

[idupree]

Yep. Google probably knows my address, phone number, email, and name, not because I've told the Internet, but because I told a friend how to drive me home and he entered it in his Android smartphone's address-book. Or was it Apple..then Apple knows (I forget).

(well, I did because I participated in GSoC, and they needed my address to pay me, which I decided was worth it for me! Etc. etc.)