> I understand. I know there was a lot of speculation about it a couple > years back or so but has it been conclusively determined that it acts in > any nefarious manner?
AFAIK the information necessary to be able to assess whether it may act in a nefarious manner (or not) is missing. As poor peons, we're constantly being told that it's no big deal to have all our lives' details shared by hundreds of companies because... we're good people so we shouldn't have anything to hide, right? By the same reasoning, when a company hides information from us, I can only assume it's because ... they do have something to hide :-( Stefan