No, it's just a drag and drop application. It's an open source app from Google Code. When you first access it on the iPhone or any computer with a web browser, it's sends out a secure certificate and you have to login using the account name and password that you setup in the iPhone preferences. I would think if there was something shady going on, this would have been shut down by Google or the Google Code community. I only turn it on when I'm showing it off to other Techy people. It's rarely ever on.