Google Payments Coming Soon

TechCrunch has an exclusive look at the upcoming Google Payments system that’s soon to be integrated into Google Base. However, there has been a lot of talk lately about Google and whether or not your data is safe with them…or rather, whether your secrets are safe with them. There was the EFF warning about the new version of their desktop software, a Time magazine cover, and online, a bit of a Google backlash. So, will people trust storing their credit card information with this web giant?

My question to the community is this: what has Google done to deserve the ire of the online community anyway, besides becoming rich and powerful? Are people intrinsically afraid of any company that makes money, immediately assuming that the "evilness" of a company increases proportionally with the stock price? Or is the company, whose motto is "don’t be evil," just asking for it when they have to make valid business decisions, like whether or not to do business in China?

Ironically, of MSN, Yahoo!, and Google, the only company that didn’t just hand over our data to the government was Google; instead they took the matter into the courts to keep the data private.

Are you afraid of Google?

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