GMail Privacy Issues

[Jazzmoose]

GMail Privacy Issues

An interesting link if you use or are considering using GMail...

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walla

[Big Wheel]

A lot of this stuff is overblown. The fact is, if you want to send something really private, you shouldn't be using email to do it, period. I'm not thrilled that GMail might be eventually used to keep a record about me, but that's life in the digital age for you.

Also, you can delete cookies with some browsers, I believe--I think Opera lets you do that.

All that said, by all means, if you don't trust them, don't use it.

[couw]

Also, you can delete cookies with some browsers, I believe--I think Opera lets you do that.

all browsers allow for that. It doesn't change the fact that there is a cookie stored with the server for up to 38 years that is tied to your IP.

The reluctant stance of "if you don't like it, don't use it" is a bit too convenient. This is still bare land for a lot of legislation and you cannot allow the sharks to plow it all down like they want. Life in the digital age can still have enough privacy if there is an interest. It just takes an effort that is unlikely to be provided by corporations if they are not pushed by legislation and interest groups. Now the whole thing is largely given over to the free market principle that every niche will find its users and vice versa in this vast market. I don't know if it can continue like that and remain healthy.