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On The Privacy Subtleties Of GMail, Other Webmail

Posted by simoniker on from the rockwell-said-it-best dept.

Brad Templeton writes "After talking with Google folks and learning about E-mail privacy law from EFF (join!) lawyers, I have written a new essay on the privacy subtleties of GMail and other advanced webmail applications. Some of the fear has been overdone, but there are surprising issues due to the fact that the ECPA, written almost 20 years ago, wasn't prepared for fancy e-mail offerings like GMail. I issue a call for Google to encrypt your mail to avoid these issues."

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  1. I don't know about this guys... by Steamhead · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hmm I don't think we need more laws, what we need is less laws, yet better defined...

  2. oh great a sponsored viagra link on a viagra spam! by urbieta · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is starting to sound not very original to me.

    Why not google setup an anti spam system we can all join in that is simply learning from the opted-in's input on what spam is?

    [this is spam] button pressed more than 20% may trigger the deleting of all related spam comming into all of googles accounts ;)