What about Google Desktop3

It administrators are banning the software,saying it's new multiple computer search feature could ultimately violate federal privacy regulations

What is this Google desktop3?
It's a free downloadable program that includes an option to let users Search across multiple computers for files, for upto a month,on google servers.from there ,copies are transfered to the users .The data is encrypted in transmission and while stored on google servers

What does privacy foundation say?
The electronic privacy foundation urged consumers to boycott the software,warning that Google could be forced to turn over the data to the government if subpoened,Even if the data is stored on Google servers any temporarily

What does University Administrator say?
Any amount of time that data is stored on an outside server is too long for institutions that must comply with the family education rights and privacy act(FERPA).Which provides strict guidelines for protecting students and medical data."we have to be careful about where our data ends up," he said."There is no effective way to manage from a Technology policy stand point,said Mr.Micheal holstein,Security administrator at cleveland state university.

what does a System administrator and network engineer say?
"Any of our intellectual property could end up on Google,which is potentially a big problem," we deal with a lot of government contracts with Secure,classified information,says Faisal sehbai a system administrator and network engineer at johnson controls.

what does a Googler have to say about this?
A Google representation pointed out that the enterprise version of Google desktop,due out "very soon," will allow IT administrators to centrally deploy and manage the software,including enabling or disabling entire feature sets.In addition,a user has to have administrator rights to0 the computer to download Google desktop,So concerned network administrators could control its usage by withholding administrator rights on broad scale

See guys there is nothing to be worried about.Google is smart enough to have considered all these issues.So chill out consider it and use it in a correct way.It's you who make the difference not any software.