[IP] more on Govt claims warrantless access to e-mail via third party servers
Begin forwarded message:
From: kim brooks wei <kimi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: December 26, 2006 10:15:02 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Govt claims warrantless access to e-mail
via third party servers
This subject received quite a bit of attention when Google unveiled
its policy about email stored on its servers. Google apparently
doesn't delete your gmail emails when you trash them, but continues
to keep them on their servers in storage. And once they've been there
for 180 days
From a post this week on my new weblog
http://blog.kim.thewei.com/2006/12/23/does-your-email-belong-to-you/
Email privacy is an enormous issue. The EFF [Electronic Frontier
Foundation] <http://www.eff.org/> informs us that companies which
offer both internet search and email storage can collect a massive
amount of personal information about users. It's possible to extract
information about you from the searches you make. It's also possible
for an email host to scan your emails to collect other personal
details about you. Not only possible, but apparently the big players
[Yahoo, MSN and Amazon] actually do this.
Google Watch <http://www.google-watch.org/gmail.html> reports that
Google scans all of its clients' emails and reserves the right to
"give this information to whomever they wish. . . After 180 days in
the U.S., email messages lose their status as a protected
communication under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
Here's a list <http://blogs.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001425.php> in
not-too-technical terms of steps for protecting yourself against your
email-plus-search provider accumulating a big fat file with details
on each of your lifestyle and shopping preferences.
More on the subject of Google's email privacy policy at EPIC
[Electronic Privacy Information Center] <http://www.epic.org/privacy/
gmail/faq.html>."
--
Kim Brooks Wei
http://blog.kim.thewei.com/
1.201.475.1854
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