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June 15, 2004
Gmail puts it's neck on the line.
There has been a lot of criticism of the new Gmail system from Google mostly having to do with privacy issues, many people belive that Google will have too much power over too many peoples e-mail and that with each user agreeing to allow Google to scan their e-mail in order to advertise relevant products will open new doors to government scanning and monitoring. There is a good article on Security Focus about exactly this, the author brings up a good point about state level "all-party consent" laws. Basically he points out that Google looking through your mail from someone that doesn't know about Gmail is illegal in many states, especially in CA, where Google is based. After reading the article I realized that from another angle this could cause a problem for courts when fighting spammers, many e-mail services filter mail for Spam and will delete it before you even see it in many cases, technically this is a violation of the same laws, essentially this could render any spam prevention implemented prior to mail delivery illegal. The spam filters installed on my mail server as well as many others around the world not to mention all of AOL's spam prevention would fall under this category.
Posted by tbartels at June 15, 2004 12:57 PM
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