Android Creep: Gmail Chat Starts Showing Which Contacts Use Android Phones

Google is powerful. We all know this, and live with it. But that brings up some interesting concerns when they break into new businesses — will they use that power to give them an unfair advantage? With great power comes great responsibility, and all that. Today brings a totally innocuous example, but it's still interesting. A new feature in Gmail Labs allows you to change your contacts' circular chat status icons in Android logo status icons. But the key is that these icons only change for users who are currently online on their Android phones.