The lawyers over at the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) are urging users not to use a new feature included in the latest version of Google's Desktop software. After reading about it, I would have to seriously wonder who in their right minds would actually use it, but then again, there are a whole lotta lusers out there...

"If a consumer chooses to use it, the new "Search Across Computers" feature will store copies of the user's Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents on Google's own servers, to enable searching from any one of the user's computers. EFF urges consumers not to use this feature, because it will make their personal data more vulnerable to subpoenas from the government and possibly private litigants, while providing a convenient one-stop-shop for hackers who've obtained a user's Google password.