Gmail: friend or foe?

[anphanax]

quote:Google's policies are essentially no different than the policies of Microsoft, Yahoo, Alexa and Amazon.

http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/
http://www.google-watch.org/
Even if you disagree with the sites presentation of information, it still has some important points (After 180 days in the U.S., email messages lose their status as a protected communication under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and become just another database record). I'm probably stating the obvious, but you shouldn't be using gmail to communicate about a crime you're planning on comitting or have comitted.

[ October 14, 2004: Message edited by: anphanax ]

[bedouin]

I've always hated webmail, always will.  GMail is thoroughly uninteresting to me.

[Refalm]

LIES.

Google rules  

[KernelPanic]

I use gmail for LKML. For this purpose, it rules.

I don't use it for personal mail.

[bedouin]

The problem with Google is that they're beginning to encompass too many things at once.  Total information control is a dangerous thing, and it will always corrupt, even if your motto is 'don't be evil.'

It will become a bigger issue if Google ever ends up in less than beneficent hands.  The inheriting company will have a whole slew of information and accounts to do whatever they please with.

Remember, it's this kind of control that makes us less than happy with Microsoft.  MS wasn't that bad in the beginning either.

[Fett101]

The guy on Google Watch is just a mad nut.
http://www.google-watch-watch.org/