Privacy experts praise Google+ rollout so far via Slashdot.
Does this mean Google is “better” than Facebook. Perhaps marginally. However, the fundamentals are the same: These “free” internet services are offered by for-profit companies. Their purpose is to make money for their stockholders, and they are going to do it one way or another. As I posted in in January:
“if you’re not paying for something, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold”.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 