After reading through even more comments and re-reading my most recent two posts, I've concluded that I'm not really helping anyone by continuing the discussion I started Thursday so I've removed these most recent two posts. I've left your comments in tact. If you'd like to continue the discussion, feel free to do so in the original post which won't be taken down.
I hope that you all, whether you agree or disagree with me, will consider that users and providers of Web services ought to be concerned about more than just quality products. I hope you also see how this is especially important in a context where it cannot be guaranteed that personally identifiable and personal data can be forcibly disclosed to third parties.
It's my hope that Web service providers will do even more to educate users about the privacy/service trade-offs and that the brilliant people devising and developing these services will find ways to make them just as rich and compelling with fewer rather than more privacy trade-offs.
Thanks for reading.
