Comment Re:Google or EC2 a "closed data service?" (Score 5, Informative) 250
Clearly Asay doesn't know about Google's internal team specifically working on ways to get your data out of the cloud.
http://www.dataliberation.org/home specifically details what data you can pull from each of Google's services and how to do it.
They concede they haven't "liberated" all the data from every service, but they're working on it.
