A little bit of caution about Gmail
Privacy issues.
Because it advocates archiving of email, Gmail has been causing quite a stir amongst privacy organizations. Current laws say that email is no longer considered private communication after 180 days and can therefore be subpoenaed without needing a judicial warrant. This along with it’s computer scanning and indexing of your emails for targeted ads causes alarms for what they can do with the profile they build about you and how government agencies can force the information from them.
The full essay is here.
Another site. (More extreme views)
jlu said,
June 26, 2004 @ 1:58pm
HAHAH…….man looks like i can go here for any tech advice i need. what have you been up to?
jessica said,
June 28, 2004 @ 11:54am
Hmmm… interesting, which is why I don’t use my gmail account for my primary email
Aaron said,
June 29, 2004 @ 1:25am
just chillaxing.