What will it take before the general public understands kind of dangers involved? Or are privacy concerns largely theoretical musings by geeks, which simply aren't as important as we imagine them to be?
There was a similar shift in privacy when banking went electronic and we all got credit cards. Now businesses have vast repositories of extremely detailed purchasing information, and we all accept this surrender of privacy without question.
What's the difference? What has been the impact of the loss of privacy via e-banking?
Maybe the only limit to the possible dangers is human imagination?
They just are not scared of the internet that's all and do not consider fantastic possibilities, but probabilities.
Google has become too big and even powerful, so it is only right that every step, even contemplation of taking a step, is scrutinised closely. That so is being done tells you that many, if not the majority, do understand the importance of privacy.