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> And even if you trust Google to do no evil, do you also trust your government? Because often enough Google will hand over your data to local authorities.

I'm agreeing with the rest of the post, but I can't imagine the FBI/NSA/whoever else stopping their snooping campaign because you've changed a switch in some settings dialog.

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Yes, they will probably ask Facebook then. Or check your web search history. There is more than one source for them to draw from. But you can shut down this huge source of your private information easily. You can deal with the rest of them later (all possible).

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