Do you know how out of date those documents are?

they are still valid. check googles TOS and Privacy Policy

Do you have an contrary information to offer yourself, since you seem to be pretty concerned about backing things up?

No, that is not a vote I want to make - if you look like your avatar, I am not sure I want your germs elected to anything (that a joke, son).

Remember, Google bought DoubleClick - one of the nastiest of the dataminers. Combine that with the fact that Google stores quite a bit of info about you in a lot of different places. Google accepted China's restrictive rules on search results out of their country. This all leads to questions about how Google defines 'Evil' - wrt "do no evil".

Google is worse than M$

when google becomes the new MS (when the fat client OS is redundant) and apple becomes the evil purveyors of DRM, we will wish we had not been so mean to microsoft.

So true. There are only two things Google is useful for; Gmail (and anyone who actually uses Gmail for confidential stuff is ignorant of the inherent danger) and its search engine.

anyone who uses the internet at all for anything is unaware of its very nature, but such is the world we live in..

I have been reading some of their T&C rules and heck I was surprised that people are waiving laws that protect them without even reading the terms and conditions! I just put Google as a joke really I had nothing better to do... sadly enough.

There is/was a lot of pent up emotion behind Google - they were the wunderkind for so long, when they matured as a major corp. suddenly they were everywhere in your life. It did not help that we discovered that they kept all our search data stored somewhere forever about the same time we discovered our government had set CARNIVORE loose on the internets snooping for our hidden secrets.