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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. Re:No... by Brandybuck · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Google != government

    The government is not involved when you call on Google to encrypt your email.

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    Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
  2. Re:No... by Metallic+Matty · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I agree. We call this market capitalism. If you don't like something, then you don't have to use it. No one is forcing you to use a service like GMail, and I'm sure there will plenty of comprobable others of similar magnitude which better address your "security" needs.

    If that is to say GMail doesn't meet your needs; which, I'm willing to assume in the majority of cases, it certainly will.