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By Nathan Weinberg

Devin Reams notices that Google’s Firefox Send To SMS extension reserves the right to log all of your text messages, and I’ve checked, and the same policy applies to a similar feature in Toolbar 4.

From the Firefox Send to Phone FAQ:

When you send a message using Google Send to Phone, Google will receive and log the IP address [?] and one or more cookies from the computer you are using, as well as information about the mobile phone you are sending to, including the phone’s telephone number and carrier. In addition, we might also log the text of the message you send, in order to investigate and correct technical problems with the service.

In the Privacy Practices entry of the Send To feature on the new Toolbar:

If you send text through SMS using Send To feature of the Google Toolbar, Google logs the number and carrier the message is sent to, and in some cases may record the text sent for debugging purposes.

I can understand logging the carrier number and a few details of random text messages for debugging purposes, but I can’t imagine what is accomplished by logging whole"