Re: A question about Google and Google voice

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Jeff Porten <civitan () jeffporten com>
Date: April 13, 2009 12:28:26 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] A question about Google and Google voice

On Apr 12, 2009, at 2:40 PM, David Farber wrote:

> If, and I have no direct evidence to support or deny this, they are  
> recording and saving the conversations from Google voice this raises  
> a critical question about privacy and maybe a legal question  or two.

GrandCentral had a seemingly infinite mailbox for storing old  
voicemail messages and recorded conversations. (At least, if there was  
a limit, I never hit it.) Presumably Google Voice's technical maximum  
is far higher. And the UI is such that it's easiest to simply mark  
messages as read, and then leave them lying around rather than "clean  
up" the old messages.

So I'd say, yes, it's exceedingly clear that Google Voice is  
"recording and saving" the conversations and voicemail messages,  
because the UI affords the user's *choosing* to do this. I'd have no  
questions, therefore, about the size of the GV corpus of recordings;  
on the other hand, the question of what GV is doing with them is  
another matter entirely.

Best,
Jeff Porten





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