Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

[Justin]

Dave Howe (2004-04-13 14:11Z) wrote:

> Justin wrote:
> > It's not just a private interaction between two consenting parties.
> > It's a contract that grants power to a third party eliminating
> > traditional legal guarantees of quasi-privacy in communication from
> > sender to recipient, one of which is not a party to the contract.
> > There's no guarantee the average sender would know that mail to gmail
> > is intercepted and parsed.
> 
> And this differs from normal mail how?
> most free email services add advert footers, and many email servers offer
> virus and spam filtering via just such a parsing method.  the Google

I'm not concerned with the advertising itself.  My concern is that the
Gmail service would provide an unacceptable level of detail on message
content to whoever's monitoring the advertisement logs.