[dba-Tech] Redirect to GMail

On 10/3/05, Peter Brawley <peter.brawley at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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?

People sell ways to increase your page-rank based on conforming to
google's searching standards and through use of search tools such as
meta tags (things you could easily learn yourself but eh, people are
lazy.) Google itself does not sell these ways.

Do you think that none of the other companies on the internet do this?

Everywhere you visit logs your associations and other things to tailor
for the DB. Advertisers don't mine that DB, Google lets advertisers
pick Keywords for their adds to show up on. You don't think that
Rogers wouldn't be forced to also show email records from the server
if asked by a court of law? That's a little odd... I thought everyone
had to follow the legal system. Guess Google's one of those bad guys
that obeys the law. Can't let the man get us. Of course, while we're
at it, why not just outlaw any demographics and ban all forms of
advertising. And it seems that closed circuit TV has the opportunity
to be used for demographic study. We should remove all CCTV too, as
it's a privacy risk. Then we might be truely safe from the anonymous
statistics that will clue everyone in on our most intimate secret.

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Josh McFarlane

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