From what I read about their translation feature, it doesn't record anything. And I did a test to see if it would index pages in its search engine that aren't linked anywhere on the web, but have this google translation feature on it, and they never got indexed. So this shouldn't be a problem for anyone. The google feature even allows ssh (secure) connections, which another translator from yahoo couldn't handle.considering how much trouble Google are getting into over their embedded spyware it's hardly suprising people are freaking about this