Peter Brawley
peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Fri Dec 30 03:56:01 CST 2011
On 12/30/2011 2:06 AM, Gustav Brock wrote: > Hi Peter > > Don't forget the old saying, that sending an e-mail is like sending an open postcard. > It really is that simple Not at all that simple: the postman or neighbourhood kids reading my postcard (like people nearby hearing a personal conversation on a train) is a far cry from a global corporation mining everyone's electronic postcards to track their lives. That's Orwell's concept of Big Brother implemented by corporations. > but people seem to forget. > For example, many - even enterprises - use external services for spam filtering. What can these services do other than reading your mail and take a decision wether it is spam or malware or good mail? In this process, all your mail may be exposed for any one at that service completely out of your control. > > If you wish to e-mail anything in privacy, encrypt the content or move it to an encrypted attachment. Sure. The question is whether there's a need for regulation of practices like Google's. PB ----- > > /gustav > > >>>> peter.brawley at earthlink.net 29-12-2011 23:02>>> > On 12/29/2011 3:38 PM, Stuart McLachlan wrote: >> You put your info through my mail servers, and I can do what I want with it. I have given no >> guarantee of privacy. If you don't like it, don't use my mail service.:-) > Happy New Year to you too! :-) > > PB > > ---- >> -- Stuart On 29 Dec 2011 at 12:36, Peter Brawley wrote: >>>> Once we sign up for GMail or Google Voice, Google does what it calls >>>> "content extraction" (to refine its targeted advertising) on all >>>> messages from us/and to us/. That exposes everybody we communicate >>>> with on these services. >>>> >>>> In the US, a Fourth Amendment legal action might put a stop to that, >>>> though AFAIK none has yet begun. What about other countries? >>>> >>>> PB > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >