Google's new-ish online Document applications are very handy for collaborating with colleagues, or for working on a document or spreadsheet without having to email it back and forth from work to home. But there is a downside to working in the cloud - security and privacy becomes a greater concern.
Yesterday, Google reported a "software bug" that shared documents that were meant to be private. Only a small fraction of accounts were affected, but given the number of people who use Google, that is still a lot of people.
This isn't just a concern for Google. Now there is a federal push to digitize patients' health records. So presumable there will be large government-run databases of people enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid. One risk is that decisions concerning health care with be centralized under some new federal czar, another is that all this private information will be breached. Governments have a poor record of managing and securing these types of database.
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