Re: Gmail invites (was: I Love GMail!)

On 08/03/06, Douglas Handy <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Interesting. Would you care to expand on that? Is it a privacy issue?
>
> Google on something like gmail plus privacy and you should find plenty of
> conspiracy theoryists.  I'm not in the same camp, but OTOH I do find it a
> little weird Google seems to keep everything virtually forever.  Here is
one
> link which is perhaps a little less anal rententive in their discussion
> about gmail:  http://www.epic.org/privacy/gmail/faq.html
>
> For that matter, search on Google and privacy and you'll find plenty of
> folks who don't trust the "do no harm" corporate mantra.

Do you know what the retention policy of your regular ISP is? As for content
filtering I wouldn't regard anything that goes by unencrypted e-mail as
private. At least Google are openly stating what their policies are.

--
Dave...