[dba-Tech] gmail & privacy

Hi Peter

Don't forget the old saying, that sending an e-mail is like sending an open postcard.
It really is that simple 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.

/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

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> -- 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