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Google also has an ongoing PR problem with regard to privacy, with Eric Schmidt (sp? the recently ex-ceo dude) going on record as saying he doesn't believe in privacy.

Facebook at least pretends to care about privacy and then screws the user, whereas Google just skips to step B

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Google has a team whose job is to make sure privacy needs of the user are met: http://www.dataliberation.org/

The Data Liberation program is all about being able to move your data from google to anywhere else. It has nothing to do with privacy.

How is removing one's data entirely from a product not related to privacy?

The data liberation thing is about adding data to Google, or copying the data out of Google so other services can use it. I may be wrong, but I have not seen anything that says you can use it to actually delete the information from Google's servers (if I'm wrong, please show me).

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