Google launched the service on its account settings page to give users options with their account should it remain inactive for an extended period of time.

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The nice thing about Facebook is that the service has fairly sophisticated privacy settings.

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In the past, the company has taken for granted that people would continue to use the service, pushing forward unpopular features and privacy settings.

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Computer security experts have warned users to be careful over how much personal information they share on the service, and to consider carefully their privacy settings.

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The service also supports custom presets (pre-defined settings made by the customer), making it easy for customers to create re-useable transcoding settings for their unique requirements such as a specific video size or bitrate.

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The good news here is that Google isn't going to be strewing your personal files all over the Internet as banner ads, as the terms of service alone might suggest, provided the files have some privacy settings, as they do by default -- viewable only to friends, for instance.

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Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults Bill to place pre-employment consultancy service on a statutory basis and widen its remit to include vulnerable adults in certain settings.

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Soon, emergency managers will soon be able to descend into the chaos and confusion of post-disaster settings like those that prevailed in earthquake-ravaged Haiti last year equipped with reliable cell-phone service.

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Each uses an Internet service -- iCloud in the case of Mountain Lion, SkyDrive with Windows 8 -- to share data, settings and other items between multiple computers and other devices.

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