Google's `Gmail' raises concerns MIXED REACTIONS ON PRIVACY ISSUES

[bigc73542]

Link to story: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/technology/8337390.htm

-{ Quote: "Posted on Fri, Apr. 02, 2004

Google's `Gmail' raises concerns

MIXED REACTIONS ON PRIVACY ISSUES

By Michael Bazeley
Mercury News

Google -- the company whose founders vowed to ``do no evil'' with their products -- is raising concerns about privacy with a new e-mail service that will include targeted advertising based on scans of private e-mail messages.

Announced Wednesday, the ``Gmail'' service hasn't even officially launched, but it is already alienating some who are worried that Google will snoop on their private electronic conversations.

Google officials, including co-founder Larry Page, said such concerns are unfounded, noting that company computers, not people, will be analyzing the e-mail messages and matching them to ads in a database. The company posted a privacy policy on its Web site Wednesday night that promises that ``No human reads your mail to target ads or other information without your consent.''

But many potential customers are not convinced...

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[Detox]

Think it's a horrible idea but I do have the #1 solution - don't use "GMail" ::)

[Peaches4U]

What's to stop Google from harvesting all those email addys and then selling them to spammers?? I tried to warn a few on another forum about this but all they can see is extra storage because they hate OE. They can't wait to download the program. >:( Wanna bet it won't be soon afterwards the whining & complaining will begin. Oh well!! In OE it is a matter of learning how to put security in place and OE works just fine....it does for me and has for the last couple of years when I smartened up, well I like to think I did!! ;D

[dangitall]

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Who in all of Creation needs a Gig's worth of email? I mean, I'm a world-class packrat (Form 1040As from '79? Got 'em!), but THAT scares me!

[bigc73542]

It doesn't sound like something I would want to use.

[Detox]

I wouldn't touch it with your ten foot pole, much less one I had to purchase myself ;D

[TheQuest]

Hi

I think it out right wrong.

In the UK if some open your mail and uses any thing in it to gain some advantaged or added a precursory they would be breaking the law.

The same should be applied here with Email's. If some one alter it in anyway it should be made a criminal offense globally, unless done for security reason's.

TheQuest 8)