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The Internet search firm insists that it needs to know what's in the e-mails that pass through its system -- so that they can be sprinkled with advertisements Google thinks are relevant.
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Several privacy related stories can be found here [news.google.com].
[edited by: WebGuerrilla at 8:37 pm (utc) on April 2, 2004]
"Anyone who speaks against g doing something must be insane or an M$ shill" ........get a life!
The last refuge of those with a lousy argument is always name calling or you did it first or my dad is bigger than your dad .....
Personnally me an M$ shill...... ROTFLOL...they owe me money!
My point was simple ....
Here it is are again for the record ....
( "hutcheson" you didn't answer it ( i presume you don't work for g so you couldn't )....
just name called ....
judging from your other posts unworthy of you ....
snide post by "gg" ....
(who does work for "g" and could have answered.... but didn't) ......
....which although your posts are always more PR than info was on your past posting record unworthy too...!)...
LOOK HERE IS THE POINT****
1..If I don't sign up to gmail ...what provisions are there to keep anthing I own ( but which may have been picked up by someone who did sign up to gmail )out of "the archives".......?
SEE****!
....easy question ....should be worthy of none insulting easy anwser ........
As for all this ..
"look at what moneysoft do so don't comment on "g" "....
we already have one arrogant bully on the block ....
we who comment are IMHO merely tring to prevent there becoming two of them....
And those who think that staying quiet in the hope that "g" wont go the moneysoft way have been left school for way to long a time .....allowing a big kid to pump iron just because you already got a bully in the yard never saved the hides of the small kids...
except in the movies ....
Twenty Eight Privacy and Civil Liberties Organizations
Urge Google to Suspend Gmail
The World Privacy Forum and 27 other privacy and
civil liberties organizations have written a letter
[inserted below] calling upon Google to suspend its
Gmail service until the privacy issues are adequately
addressed. The letter also calls upon Google to clarify
its written information policies regarding data
retention and data sharing among its business units.
The 28 organizations are voicing their concerns about
Google’s plan to scan the text of all incoming messages
for the purposes of ad placement, noting that the
scanning of confidential email for inserting third
party ad content violates the implicit trust of an
email service provider. The scanning creates lower
expectations of privacy in the email medium and may
establish dangerous precedents.
Other concerns include the unlimited period for data
retention that Google’s current policies allow, and
the potential for unintended secondary uses of the
information Gmail will collect and store.
ps ...(B'bd )...Did you ever hear "derek and clive live" the "my first/worst jobs sketch" ....
scanning of confidential email for inserting third
party ad content violates the implicit trust of an
email service provider.
Do these people have a clue of how "bulk mail" in Yahoo and "junk mail" in msn or spam filter in any email work? Besides, Adsense ads wont be shown for sensitive info.
Most of the privacy issues are related to a statement in the Gmail privacy policy:-
You can terminate your account at any time, by going to the account information page. We typically deactivate accounts within two business days of such requests. You should be aware, however, that residual copies of information may remain stored on our systems even after the deletion of information or the termination of your account.
which to my eyes, is more of a legal mumbo-jumbo, rather than a de facto practice.
And a myth about permanent storage of all the emails you ever got. If you look at any screenshot of Gmail, i see a BIG Archive button. My wild guess, till my orkut friend gonna invite me, is that unless you push that button, your message wont be stored forever or something like that.
imho, these privacy fears are just blown way out of proportion. Try reading hotmail/yahoo Privacy policy. These fears are, atleast for now, unwaranted as the 2018 google cookie :)
It's not me and if this url is inappropriate, feel free to delete! thanks
Voices: Google's 'Big Brother' mail [thestar.com]
