GMail Users Please Read

Atrocities · #1 November 26th, 2004, 09:05 PM

As an advisory FYI please note that GMAIL www.gmail.com scans your email looking for personal information and such that they can compile and sell. California has taken steps to limit this activity, however many other states have not done so as of yet.

So eMailer beware, the use of Gmail may result in privicy violations and the sale of personal information.

Atrocities · #2 November 26th, 2004, 10:00 PM

If your looking for some extra storage space consider this Gemail Plug in. http://www.aimlesswords.com/archives...7/gmail_drive/

Aiken · #3 November 26th, 2004, 10:08 PM

I'd advice to make gmail account for public correspondency only. All private mails should go to trusted mailbox (which is not viewed by googlebots and advertizers, that is).

Will · #4 November 26th, 2004, 10:57 PM

AT, that's not quite what Google does.

They do scan all your Messages, yes, but not necessarily looking for personal information. The bots look for keywords, which then trigger the placement of the text ads on the right side of the screen. It is explicitly stated in their Privacy Policy that no personal data will be sold to third parties, and that no personally identifiable data will be accessed unless required by law (e.g. they get a subpoena for your email). The most they can do is a statistical compilation, things on the order of "X percent of people who regularly get email about Y, also regularly get email about Z". Anything beyond that is a violation of the agreement accepted when joining GMail, and is thus already illegal.

And if you're truly worried about the privacy of email, you shouldn't be using email, period, or, use encryption with everything you send or recieve. But once you get to the point of using encryption, there are better communications options available anyway.

Atrocities · #5 November 26th, 2004, 11:05 PM

Thanks Will.

I read about it but the information was vague.

The G-Drive thing is great. You can use it to store 5 meg files just by dragging and dropping. Very cool.

Take a large file and use WinR to save it in 5meg segments and then copy to G-Drive.

Arkcon · #6 November 27th, 2004, 01:15 AM

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Will said:
The bots look for keywords, which then trigger the placement of the text ads on the right side of the screen.

Hee Hee. Gotta wonder what it does when it gets an SE4 .GAM file.

deccan · #7 November 27th, 2004, 07:25 AM

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Arkcon said:

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Will said:
The bots look for keywords, which then trigger the placement of the text ads on the right side of the screen.

Hee Hee. Gotta wonder what it does when it gets an SE4 .GAM file.

Send you an ad for MOO3?

Atrocities · #8 November 27th, 2004, 08:55 PM

Which would promptly be put in the junk folder.

Sivran · #9 November 29th, 2004, 12:38 AM

When it gets an SE4 .GAM file it trashes it. I tested it earlier, and let's just say you won't be using GMail for PBW...

I did send a bug report on it, so maybe they've fixed it/will fix it.

Atrocities · #10 November 29th, 2004, 02:22 AM

Lets hope so. Gmail looks to be one of the better email providers at the moment. Yahoo second, followed by a distand hotmail.