If Google would be a person it would be considered evil!

Collecting that much userdata and telling "I'm not using it but I like to collect them!" is not much good in a BigBrother world. The most user doesnt care but I do! ICQ has written in its policy that everything you send then belongs to ICQ, did not see this at google's yet but it is a US company seeking for money and I didnt see any GOOD US company seeking for money yet. I still wait to find my emails by google search some day like "ooops we opened all mailboxes and all your friend-lists to the public... 'by accident'.
and for apple on this way: If I had bought an iPOD I would have used it to build a chemical weapon or at least some kind of huge rocket!
thats part of their policy...