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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is engaging in media monitoring activity that achieves no public safety goals and will likely have a chilling effect on legitimate criticism of the agency, a leading privacy advocacy group warned.

Even as some privacy watchdog groups cheer the Federal Trade Commission's decision Wednesday to force a settlement with Google over privacy violations resulting from last year's launch of the search company's Buzz social networking service, others are expressing concern that the FTC didn't go far enough.

I've been asked by a client to use Google Docs as a way to share files, and it seems like a good idea--an easy way to track revisions and updates, and share files between multiple parties. In that respect, it works almost like a wiki, or a very basic content management system.