[dba-Tech] gmail & privacy

Tina Norris Fields tinanfields at torchlake.com
Fri Dec 30 07:55:41 CST 2011


Yup, email is not private.  That's an important fact.  I drill that one 
into my students' heads.  There is no expectation of privacy in email, 
so whatever information we do not want shared with the world should not 
go into an email message.  That's how I roll.  :-)
T

Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields at torchlake.com
231-322-2787


On 12/29/2011 1:36 PM, 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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