[dba-Tech] gmail & privacy

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Dec 29 16:08:35 CST 2011


Blunt but about right.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] gmail & privacy

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.
:-)

-- 
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
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