Privacy - Facebook and Google

We are definitely living in a world where the more we integrate ourselves into Google and Facebook the less privacy we reserve for ourselves.  I'm guilty of it and so are a lot of people.  Google sort of scares me because they have a lot of data and the recent events in China are evidence of this problem.

Here's an interesting blogpost from the Atlantic Business Channel by Derek Thompson called Facebook Does Not Understand the Meaning of Privacy.

It is important for people to diligently read the privacy information and protection literature on any social networking site.

Google and China from the Google Blog.