G-mail...Yes? No? Maybe?

You should be aware that Gmail offers absolutely no privacy at all. If you read Google's TOS etc you'll get the scoop (well, part of it anyway). I gave up my Gmail account because of the profiling of everything I did on or with it. My mail is MY business. Period.

Some folks will dispute this but information about me and others I communicated with, became common knowledge and the only way they could've accessed that information was via my email at Gmail. I will grant you that email is subject to abuses regardless but Gmail's was blatant and obvious as the info appeared no where else ever. I've never had that problem with any other email I've used so...for what it's worth.

Sandi Bowman

I had a feeling that thread would be coming back to life...

If some are concerned about using Gmail due to privacy issues...

There are way more Benefits in using Gmail than Not in my opinion But I respect all opinions on the subject...

Although... Should we also stop using Google and Googling?...

No chance that's ever going to happen...

Imagine, your Gmail is read, your web pages are read, your clicks are .... Following the rules of Boolean logic there should be absolutely no way that ...
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/20..._and_priv.html

Phil

[Ankesh]

Hi Sandi,

Thanks for talking about privacy.

As far as I know - Gmail goes through your mails only to serve relevant ads to you. No human reads your emails.

And your email address isn't sold to others.

I've never had a problem with them and use them extensively for almost all my website email addresses. Love their spam prevention and filters and archive feature. But seems like you've had a problem...

>Some folks will dispute this but information about me and others I
>communicated with, became common knowledge

Could you talk a bit more about it without revealing the private details?

Cannot do, Ankesh, due to the highly confidential nature of the research. Sorry.

Sandi Bowman