German government raises concerns about Google Wave's data protection efforts

The Bundesamt fuer Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (roughly translates as 'Federal office for Security in Information Technologies) in Germany mainly voiced concerns about the loss of control over data once subscribed to the service Google Wave. Google has reacted surprised to this, mainly at the fact that the institute is passing judgement on a service that has not been publicly released yet. Unfortunately, so far I have not found any english language articles or news items on this yet.

http://www.tomshardware.com/de/Wave-Google-BSI-Datenschutz,news-243460.html

Along slightly different lines, but on the same subject - Blogger Jeff Jarvis has criticised the new Google service "Sidewiki", which collects user comments from other websites and saves it on Google Servers. The website authors thereby lose control over the content, and Internet critic Andrew Keen has suggested this might be a thinly veiled attempt by Google to take ownership of the whole Internet.

http://www.focus.de/digital/computer/chip-exklusiv/tid-16076/google-die-unheimliche-supermacht_aid_450985.html