 Gmail Dangerous? |
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 Mar 6 2005, 07:20 PM
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Member [ Level 1 ]  Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 8-November 04 Member No.: 1,330  |
QUOTE Thirty-One Privacy and Civil Liberties Organizations Urge Google to Suspend Gmail The World Privacy Forum and 30 other privacy and civil liberties organizations have written a letter [inserted below] calling upon Google to suspend its Gmail service until the privacy issues are adequately addressed. The letter also calls upon Google to clarify its written information policies regarding data retention and data sharing among its business units. The 31 organizations are voicing their concerns about Google’s plan to scan the text of all incoming messages for the purposes of ad placement, noting that the scanning of confidential email for inserting third party ad content violates the implicit trust of an email service provider. The scanning creates lower expectations of privacy in the email medium and may establish dangerous precedents. Other concerns include the unlimited period for data retention that Google’s current policies allow, and the potential for unintended secondary uses of the information Gmail will collect and store. An Open Letter to Google Regarding Its Proposed Gmail Service From: World Privacy Forum Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and Australian Privacy Foundation Grayson Barber, Privacy Advocate Bits of Freedom (Netherlands) British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (Canada) Calegislation CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) Roger Clarke, Privacy Research and Advocate (Australia) Consumer Action Consumer Federation of America Consumer Federation of California Consumer Task Force for Automotive Issues Electronic Privacy Information Center Federación de Consumidores en Acción (FACUA) (Spain) Foundation for Information Policy Research (United Kingdom) Mari Frank, Esq., Author of Identity Theft Survival Kit Simson L. Garfinkel, Author of Database Nation Edward Hasbrouck, Author and Consumer Advocate Massachusetts Consumer Assistance Council Massachusetts Consumers' Coalition National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators (NACAA) National Consumers League PrivacyActivism Privacy International (United Kingdom) Privacy Rights Now Coalition Privacy Times Private Citizen, Inc. Privaterra (Canada) Public Information Research, Inc. Utility Consumers' Action Network Notice from jipman:
http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/GmailLetter.htm warn +20% you have to use quote-brackets for quoted stuff |
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Mar 6 2005, 07:47 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 311 Joined: 1-November 04 Member No.: 1,290 |
In my opinion this is simply out of jealousy and awe of Gmail, which has of course exploded recently.
If you don't like gmail, if you're scared of gmail, if you think it's a bad thing in any way, then DONT USE IT. The people that use Gmail (not me) are using it because it gives a great service, with lightning speeds and amazing storage space. I don't see how anyone can find that a bad thing. It doesn't even put advertisments in the outgoing or incoming emails that you send (yahoo and hotmail do this). Gmail is on the rise, and the people that want to knock it down are just wanting to cause problems and interfere with people's lives. |
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Mar 6 2005, 08:34 PM
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Moderator Group: Members Posts: 54 Joined: 12-February 05 From: Canada Member No.: 2,619 |
I hate to ruin this, but the post is copied from http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/GmailLetter.htm!!!
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Mar 6 2005, 08:42 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 311 Joined: 1-November 04 Member No.: 1,290 |
QUOTE(Dooga @ Mar 6 2005, 08:34 PM) I think what he meant was to put the letter in a quote and add something of his own to the end, but it ended up wrong. |
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Mar 6 2005, 10:38 PM
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Administrator  Group: Admin Posts: 460 Joined: 26-August 04 Member No.: 1 |
Reduced 5 hosting credits for not Quoting.
As for the Gmail thing, They really need to put the things forward. I think Google really breaches its privacy agreement. Some of the facts explained in Googlewatch.com are really disturbing. |
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Mar 7 2005, 03:23 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 145 Joined: 13-December 04 Member No.: 1,734 |
today, everything is tapped. phones, internet, even emails.
see what yahoo mail have written at the bottom of the page; QUOTE Copyright © 2005 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright Policy Terms of Service NOTICE: We collect personal information on this site. To learn more about how we use your information, see our Privacy Policy but im still using it. why? because i dont think i m a threat to anyone. |
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Mar 7 2005, 04:26 AM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 382 Joined: 5-September 04 Member No.: 255 |
I don't think Google wants to collect our personal data so that they can sell to spammers or do malicious stuff or something. They just want to serve adverts to us to make money. Given the wonderful services they provide, I think it's only fair.
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Mar 7 2005, 06:34 AM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 257 Joined: 29-November 04 From: Marietta, GA Member No.: 1,561 |
QUOTE(jcguy @ Mar 7 2005, 12:26 AM) I don't think Google wants to collect our personal data so that they can sell to spammers or do malicious stuff or something. They just want to serve adverts to us to make money. Given the wonderful services they provide, I think it's only fair.  You are exactly right.. Plus there are legal things that, should they be asked to do, they would have to do. |
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Mar 7 2005, 10:46 AM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 260 Joined: 14-February 05 Member No.: 2,634 |
QUOTE(wwheeler @ Mar 7 2005, 02:34 PM) You are exactly right.. Plus there are legal things that, should they be asked to do, they would have to do. Well... Considering all this, they still must TELL us that they will be collecting personal information, or we shall just excercise our human rights! I nicked this off the Declaration thing... I think 1, 2, 3, 20 and 22 are the closest I can get to it... QUOTE Article 1. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. Article 2. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty. Article 3. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. Article 20. (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. (2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association. Article 22. Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality. Now then... I hope that google will not breach this... Or trouble will be knocking on their door! |
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Mar 7 2005, 11:29 AM
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'Prentice de-Zighner Group: Members Posts: 368 Joined: 23-January 05 From: USA Member No.: 2,290 |
Oh COME ON! Citizens of the Earth! Has anyone thought how IF gmail is dangerous and may pose a threat to our confidential e-mails, they most DEFINITELY be sued or jailed for not conforming into the rights of their company. Google is a company which is looked-up to by many. It has developed and is still develping. We all know that Google's gmail is scanning our emails for detecting scams or junk of the sort, but they are doing it for our own use. Its free, big, and fast. Why waste it? Besides, if gmail is still in closed Beta with unknown bugs and errors, will YOU use it for important e-mails?
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