Kev,
I can agree with Mark’s comment. It basically just begins uploading/syncing files without asking which directories and files you’d like to sync. Granted, it’s a beta, and I understand there are some constraints, but there’s no mechanism to say “don’t back up these files.” Even in a beta, or maybe better: ESPECIALLY in a beta, there should be some control over what goes where. I trust Google with a lot my information, but I would be remiss as a tech-geek if I didn’t point out obvious design flaws.

Still, this is a clever idea and useful for folks like you and me that enjoy the Cloud!

Mark, without sharing the exact details of the personal and proprietary info, can you shed any more light on exactly what happened? Did you have information in your My Documents folder that got uploaded that you didn’t want uploaded? Just curious what the exact concern is.

I tried it out, and it uploaded a bunch of personal and proprietary information to my google documents before I could stop it. Any program that violates my privacy to this degree without even asking me first isn’t going to get a second chance later.

This sounds great. Upon registering I however discovered that it was for the time being only available for Windows 2000 / XP / Vista, but that a Mac OS X version would be coming soon!