[dba-Tech] Redirect to GMail

Arthur Fuller wrote:

>In what way am I more protected by 
>using rogers.com than gmail.com?

Not just you. Anyone who corresponds with you. Does Rogers keep all 
email forever, build a database of keywords associated with email 
addresses, let its advertisers mine that db, show it to any government 
that asks, &c? And are you happy to help Google sell pagerank?

If these folks are worried...

World Privacy Forum
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
       and
Australian Privacy Foundation
Grayson Barber, Privacy Advocate
Bits of Freedom (Netherlands)
British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (Canada)
Calegislation
CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering)
Roger Clarke, Privacy Research and Advocate (Australia)
Consumer Action
Consumer Federation of America
Consumer Federation of California
Consumer Task Force for Automotive Issues
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Federación de Consumidores en Acción (FACUA) (Spain)
Foundation for Information Policy Research (United Kingdom)
Mari Frank, Esq., Author of Identity Theft Survival Kit
Simson L. Garfinkel, Author of Database Nation
Edward Hasbrouck, Author and Consumer Advocate
Massachusetts Consumer Assistance Council
Massachusetts Consumers' Coalition
National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators (NACAA)
National Consumers League
PrivacyActivism
Privacy International (United Kingdom)
Privacy Rights Now Coalition
Privacy Times
Private Citizen, Inc.
Privaterra (Canada)
Public Information Research, Inc.
Utility Consumers' Action Network

...so am I.

PB

-----

Arthur Fuller wrote:

>In what way am I more protected by using rogers.com than gmail.com?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Peter Brawley
>Sent: October 3, 2005 5:10 PM
>To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Redirect to GMail
>
> >Wow, someone sure has it out for google. Wonder what
> >they think MSN,Yahoo, and the other search engines /
> >free email providers have been doing for a lot longer
> >and proven themselves evil.
>
>The concerns aren't about 'evil', they're about privacy issues that 
>arise from marketers harvesting info from email.
>
>PB
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>dba-Tech mailing list
>dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com
>http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech
>Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com
>
>
>  
>
-------------- next part --------------
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.9/116 - Release Date: 9/30/2005