Originally posted by: Kilrsat
Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Originally posted by: Kilrsat
Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Why do people continue to say 'If you don't like it then don't use it' and completely ignore the fact that there are going to be people sending email to those who have these accounts and know nothing about their mail be scanned.
Either this place is full oF GMAIL OMG AUTOGRAPH fanbois or you just don't mind if people sift through your net tendancies in order to classify you as something.
Because your email is already being scanned by anyone and everyone!
Do you not understand what anti-spam scanning at the server is doing? How about the anti-virus scan? Your email is scanned, and could be read by any number of people already. Gmail is doing nothing innovative except for using the scans that are already occuring to make a profit.
It is already true that if you do not want someone other than the intended recipient to read an email you need to use some method of encryption, it has been that way since the beginning.
Do you just not understand what happens between the time you click "send" and the time your intended recipient clicks "read?"
Someone scanning my email for viruses and/or spam is completely different than a company scanning my email, without my permission, so that they can drive advertising revenue.
So yes, to answer you question, I do know what happens when I click "send" and the recipient clicks "read". This is completely different. You may be okay with a company making you an unknowing participant in their advertising research, however I am not.
And this ONLY APPLIES TO THOSE WHO ARE SENDING EMAIL TO THE GMAIL ACCOUNT HOLDER AND DO NOT KNOW ABOUT THE SCANNING. This part was included because I'm tired of people saying 'you can choose not to participate omg!11!! google is leet and u ar3nt cool unless you go0gle!!211!'
How is it different? In all cases a computer program is checking subjects, bodies, recipients, and attachments. Its going through all the words you wrote, its logging what it does, its logging the results, and its doing something based on those results. With some spam scanners its actually adding an additional field to the header information, thus in a way modifying the message you sent.
So you're ok with scanning, you're ok with machines modifying what you write, but you're not ok with a company trying to recoup some of its costs? It just doesn't add up. Scanning of messages is a fact of life, scanning the content of messages to determine if its unsolicited commercial email or not (and tagging that email with the results) is far more intrusive than checking for keywords in an email. However you're ok with spam scans because its directly benefits you where you aren't ok with google scans because it only benefits the company. Is that right?
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