Seth, This is a really interesting paper and topic. You imply the relationship is important, but to what extent do you think it matters that Google voice is run by Google and not some random small company? In other words, does it matter that with google voice, Google has access not only to a persons phone conversations, but also potentially to his email, calendar, googlereader, googlegroups, etc. This is both a practical and theoretical question, as I couldn't tell from the privacy policies how information from the various google products is used. Would it be less scary if some other company came out with a similar product with a similar privacy policy? It seems it would, but I wonder if we can know exactly why.

I don't really have any other comments- this paper looks good to me!

-- HeatherStevenson - 25 Nov 2009