http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-googles-new-privacy-p fascinating, if it were me, i'd leave my google account, it would be dead to me so to speak, why bother closing it? btw, the big thing in the piracy stuff is to have search engines self censor results, meaning no searching for streams or what have you...nice, as soon as one engine got mkt dominance..censorship begins
Thing is, now Google will integrate all of the information they have already. This has happened to me before with Chrome, so now I do not use that operating sized system sized browser. I happened to check my spam account one day and my real life name had popped up with an insurance pitch, I had used google chrome to search some public records and they bundled the data and sold it to the insurance company, that was it for me.