Security and privacy triple-play

In the news today are three pretty stunning and interesting articles. I've downloaded the Google paper for later reading, but I'm intrigued by their idea to provide openly the logs of issued Certificates. The Facebook article isn't too shocking; I read somewhere once that [with respect to free online services] if you can't see how the company is making money, then you're the product. Finally, check out the video of Carrier IQ. If this isn't 2011's version of Phorm, I don't know what is...

• Google Researchers Propose Plan To Fix CA System
• Facebook Settles With FTC, Admits Privacy Violations
• Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything