Google No Longer Scanning Apps for Education Users' Email

[exfileme]

Oh what a mess.

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[back_by_demand]

Evil, evil bastards, they are so bald-faced about it, makes me want to puke

 

[bustapr]

at least now I wont have to compress every program I write or app I send through mu university email. thats good I guess.

 

[wussupi83]

Google offers free services in return for reading your data... that's their business model. Nobody makes you use Google services.

 

[Onus]

Wussupi83 makes a very good point. Google is not responsible for users' failure to do their due diligence. I do NOTHING online without the assumption that, regardless of any privacy policy, sooner or later the right amount of money will change hands, and anything I've typed or uploaded will be made available to advertisers, parasites' alphabet agencies, or others to whom it was not intended. Still, if I am relatively certain that my data will be misused (giving it to advertisers is, by definition, misuse), I don't use that service. I use startpage.com or duckduckgo for searches, and minimize my use of other Google services.

 

[back_by_demand]

To both the above posters, I understand that Google makes money from advertising and I accept if I visit a website there will be ads and banners. What I don't accept is for any company to surreptitiously scan private communications for the same purpose. It is, as the article suggests, in breach of wiretap laws. Just because they can they shouldn't. The phone company has the ability to listen in on your calls if they wanted but if we found out that the CEO of AT&T had been recording all telephone calls and scanning the content as a way to mine information you can bet he would be in a Federal prison for 30 years. So no, it is not acceptable.