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more on connecting The Dots with Google's New Gmail service
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:11:12 -0500
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:05:07 -0500 From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com> Subject: Re: [IP] connecting The Dots with Google's New Gmail service To: dave () farber net I think there are serious grounds to worry about the privacy aspects of Google's new email service. Apart from the fact that they admit they're looking at content -- since when should a communications carrier do that? -- other practices of Google and its affiliates leave me very uneasy. For example, the privacy statement from Orkut, a Google social networking affiliate, explicitly gives them the right to share personally identifiable information with Google. I find it hard to square this sort of behavior with one of their own self-proclaimed "cherished core values": "Don't be evil" (that quote is on http://www.google.com/jobs/great-people-needed.html). --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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