[aklug] Re: Google: If you send to Gmail you have 'No legitmate expectation of privacy'

From: Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com>
Date: Wed Aug 14 2013 - 21:08:46 AKDT

On 08/14/2013 02:36 PM, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, Greg Schmitz wrote:
>
>
> Yours has much better quotes in it:
>
> It quotes Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman: "Google policy
> is to
> get right up to the creepy line and not cross it."
>
> :-) They want to just short of creepy... and they know how close they
> are.
> Funny stuff.
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die
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Just have to mention: If we all actually cared about any of this (there
is very little evidence of that) - we could send PGP encrypted e-mails
to each other through the gmail service, i.e., using IMAP/POP, third
party e-mail clients, and GnuPG. The e-mails wouldn't be readable by
Google, the government, nor any other third parties, even though G-mail
was providing the hosting service.

If we actually cared... (*sigh*)

Of course, using a third party e-mail client (Thunderbird, Kmail, Mutt,
whatever) would mean giving up that (*thick sarcasm*) amazing G-mail Web
interface.
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