Google's Gmail service scanning your inbox?

[DannyBoy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3602745.stm

:Q

Screw that :disgust:

 

[jfall]

no one is forcing you to sign up

 

[Parrotheader]

Originally posted by: jfall
no one is forcing you to sign up

Nor can you sign up right now anyway unless you're one of the select few doing the beta testing.

 

[rudder]

They offer you a gig of space for email. Its their space they can scan it all day long. Just don't sign up if you don't like it.

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: rudder
They offer you a gig of space for email. Its their space they can scan it all day long. Just don't sign up if you don't like it.

Exactly.

 

[foolish501]

well im in the beta program for gmail, and there's no problem with them scanning my inbox if they want, i'm not plotting some terrorist acts or anything bad

 

[Modeps]

I'm sure this is a repost. They use a program to determine what ad's to display. whoopde do. if you're so paranoid about communication over the internet, just remember everyonce knows what you're doing all the time. use the post office instead.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: Modeps
I'm sure this is a repost. They use a program to determine what ad's to display. whoopde do. if you're so paranoid about communication over the internet, just remember everyonce knows what you're doing all the time. use the post office instead.

Like the post office doesn't konw what you're sending through the mail.........
:beady eyes looking around emoticon;

 

[DaveSimmons]

dead horse + baseball bat, but:

Google says the content of users' email would remain private because the process would be fully automated.

"No humans read your emails to target the ads," Google's web site says.

 

[torpid]

Well, I'd trust google and its use of advertising over hotmail and its selling of my email address any day.

 

[notfred]

Any mail server admin can read your email if he wants to. Google is no different.

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: foolish501
well im in the beta program for gmail, and there's no problem with them scanning my inbox if they want, i'm not plotting some terrorist acts or anything bad

When they went after communists, I didn't complain because I wasn't a communist. When they went after jews I didn't complain because I wasn't a jew...

The problem with this is that it could turn into a slippery slope very easily. If this is a huge success and google starts making tons of money, you can bet that every email provider out there (including your ISP) will start doing it. Money is money.

 

[Ausm]

pr0n scanner


Sysadmin

 

[Jzero]

Wow.
Hello and welcome to

Monday, 5 April, 2004, 22:27 GMT 23:27 UK

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: torpid
Well, I'd trust google and its use of advertising over hotmail and its selling of my email address any day.

Does hotmail really sell your email address? Or are you just an Anti-Microsoft zealot who just makes things up?

I would guess the latter...

 

[SuperFreaky]

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: torpid
Well, I'd trust google and its use of advertising over hotmail and its selling of my email address any day.

Does hotmail really sell your email address? Or are you just an Anti-Microsoft zealot who just makes things up?

I would guess the latter...

yeah, I don't use hotmail. I do have a few family members who have for years and don't get a bit of spam

 

[dr150]

If you guys stop loading your GAY porn on Gmail, then you won't get meat-thuster ads!

 

[Dissipate]

Just use this:

PGP

 

[Rainsford]

I don't know what's funnier, the fact that someone brought this up AGAIN for some reason, or the fact that some people apparently think their email is secret and private. If you want privacy, use PGP.

 

[torpid]

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: torpid
Well, I'd trust google and its use of advertising over hotmail and its selling of my email address any day.

Does hotmail really sell your email address? Or are you just an Anti-Microsoft zealot who just makes things up?

I would guess the latter...

Not at all. I am a big MS fan. I had a hotmail address and rarely used it. At some point they had a big feature upgrade, and at that point i began receiving inordinant amounts of spam. A friend of mine had the same problem and claimed that they added some option about releasing information about your email address and it was by default set to enable it.

[added]I am pretty sure they stopped this "feature" after they began using MS Passport

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: foolish501
well im in the beta program for gmail, and there's no problem with them scanning my inbox if they want, i'm not plotting some terrorist acts or anything bad

yeah, me neither! Big Brother is my friend! no thought crimes here!