Using an iPad - was krankshaft format solution found

Jonathan Smith smithjm77x7 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Apr 24 09:27:12 EDT 2011


I take your point. I don't think anyone is 100% happy with Google's policy
of hoarding data, but all unencrypted email is rather public. I don't know
the the techicalities of it but I belive that all emails end up being copied
numerous times onto servers around the world. "Do no evil" is an empthy
phrase.

I am not too worried about advertising-- I simply ignore it, but obviously
others don't!

Ironically Google's Schmidt expressed concern about Facebook and suggested
that in future people may have to change online identities to protect
themselves (I am paraphrasing him).

On 23 April 2011 23:28, Jonathan Jarrett
<jjarrett at coriolis.greenend.org.uk>wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Jonathan Smith wrote:
>
>> I know what you man about Google. Gmail is good. I don't write anything
>> that
>> would interest them or anyone else.
>>
>
>        All well and good for you, but unless you know that everyone who
> ever mails you there feels the same way, there's still an issue. Their mail
> is getting keyworded and indexed too, and Google has no privacy agreement
> with them. Any one Gmail user is the bait for a whole *load* more
> advert-profiling data. Yours,
>                                   Jonathan
>
> ObCD: New Order - _Substance_ (lately picked up for a fiver and I'm glad it
> was no more)
> --
>      Jonathan Jarrett, Oxford       jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
>   =======================================================================
>  "With Capitalism, man exploits man.  With Socialism, it is exactly
> opposite"
>                         -Robert Anton Wilson
>



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