Google Desktop 3 - new feature security fears

Google Desktop 3 allows remote searching of another computer, but you need to trust Google with the data:

To enable the computer-to-computer search function, a user specifies what information should be indexed and then agrees to allow Google to transfer the material to its own storage system.

Google plans to encrypt all data transferred from users' hard drives and restrict access to just a handful of its employees. The company says it won't peruse any of the transferred information.

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