Google quietly announced a new service last week: Google Health. Google bills the service as an application "to store and manage all of your health information in one central place." To that end, users are encouraged to log in to the site, and begin entering all of their most personal healthcare records into Google's server farm.

Yet Google has declared itself exempt from HIPAA, the law regulating how consumer health data can be stored and transmitted electronically, which should make consumers think twice before entrusting their healthcare data to the tech giant. Keep Reading >>