&gt; Then things like the NSA leaks happen<p>So I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s the cause here, because:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.co.uk&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;what.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.co.uk&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;what.html</a><p>&quot;Press reports that suggest that Google is providing open-ended access to our users’ data are false, period.&quot;<p>&quot;Any suggestion that Google is disclosing information about our users’ Internet activity on such a scale is completely false.&quot;<p>And you have chosen not to believe a statement made in the strongest possible terms. If you won&#x27;t believe this, then I do not think there are any words that you would believe, so there&#x27;s no point in trying to get more published.<p>&gt; What can you offer me other than root access to your servers?<p>Indeed, and we can&#x27;t do that because it would invalidate the very security that you want.<p>&gt; If up until today, Google was a good company and wasn&#x27;t abusing anything in any way, and suddenly tomorrow they turned evil, why would they erase my data first? They still have it, and I have no control over whether or not Tomorrow-Google will keep it.<p>The easy solution here is to not keep any of that data in de-anonymised form for longer than is necessary, but then people don&#x27;t want to believe the privacy policies which say this is happening...