Lunch over IP: In Google we trust?

Lunch over IP: In Google we trust?: "In Google we trust?

This used to be Google's privacy policy concerning its desktop search tool - a popular local version of the Google engine that you can download and which searches your own computer:

These combined results can be seen only from your own computer; your computer's content is never sent to Google (or anyone else). (full)

Googledesktoplogo Then yesterday Google released a new version of the desktop tool (3.0) and it includes a new feature, Search Across Computers. This allows you to search your own files (Word, Excel, PPT, PDF and Web history) from other computers. This looks like a quite useful feature: you're travelling without your laptop and something comes up and you absolutely need that spreadsheet. You can call up someone, give her/him your password and access to your computer, guide her through your files tree, and so on. Or you can borrow the first connected computer, log onto your Google account, and retrieve it.
In order to do this however, copies of your files must be first uploaded to the Google servers:

We first copy this content to Google Desktop servers located at Google (...) your data is never accessible by anyone doing a Google search. (full)

That's a big, big difference from the previous privacy language. There is a lot of embedded 'trust me' here."