Over at ZDNet, Davis Berlind has posted an article that relates Dave Winer’s concerns over the trustworthiness of Google.

“Scripting News publisher and RSS shaker-and-mover Dave Winer diplomatically bit the hand that fed him with a recent blog entry that can be summed this way: Unless there are some changes in the way the company conducts itself, perhaps throwing in a dash of transparency (the new trendy buzzword), users of Google’s services should not be as cavalier with their trust as they are being.”

“Through its growing portfolio of services - everything from Web search to desktop search to blog publishing - users of Google are entrusting a significant amount of their personal information to the company.”

While Winer falls just shy of saying “Google cannot be trusted,” he held few punches in his criticism of the company that provided financial support to a blogging conference that he organized. Says Winer in his blog:

“Google today is as dangerous as Microsoft, and I wouldn’t bet on their trustworthyness, not without a lot more light having been shed on this. The technology industry is built on a foundation of arrogance and disdain for users. Google is too. You may not have seen it yet, but I have.”