On 07/06/2016 05:05 AM, John Newman wrote:
Do any gmail users (which I've noticed there a lot of on the list, as well as in real life, heh) feel at all threatened by what Google is doing with access to your entire mail stream? They've publicly stated users have no "reasonable expectation of privacy".
Do you use gmail for your main / private / important emails, in addition to list correspondence?
Or do you consider the internet so pwned that it doesnt matter? (although, why make it easier for them..)
I'm just curious... I started getting squeamish about it myself a good few years back, before snowden, just because it seems like an obviously bad idea to house all my correspondence at the HQ of one of the biggest corporations in the world, for them to play with, mine, and cross-index for targeted advertising as they see fit..
Setting up your own mail server (postfix+spamassasin+...clamav+..whatever) isn't really that hard, although you gotta pay a hosting fee, depending on how you decide to do it. And I guess there are other alternatives to gmail that are much better in this area, although I'm still inclined to use my own thing..
The only thing I use Gmail for is newsletters and an occasional official mail to businesses. If google wants to parse my interests by what I receive in the way of newsletters I really don't give a fuck. I get Stratfor, Reuters, Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy In Focus, The Economist... A dozen others. I hope their AI chokes on it. Speaking of AI... I posted a FB status about a gay man in Illinois who burned a flag, in drag, and then posted it as a profile pic on FB. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10210289592215367&set=a.1674617904466.91080.1207997125&type=3&theater He was arrested under an Illinois state flag defacement law and then released b/c that law violates a 1989 Supreme ruling that flag burning is constitutionally protected. A few minutes later I noticed a Sponsored Sidebar ad... Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/BnrCbZu.png If you post on Facebook with the hashtags #LGBT and #Flagburner you end up seeing sidebar ads for incestuous pedobears at answersDOTCom. The pic IS SFW (I guess)... Rr