http://goodblimey.com/archives/2004/06/24/person-familiar-with-gmail-speaks-out/ Personal blog, and home to 2,748 mashups Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:14:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://goodblimey.com/archives/2004/06/24/person-familiar-with-gmail-speaks-out/comment-page-1/#comment-444 horai Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:46:14 +0000 http://goodblimey.com/archives/2004/06/24/person-familiar-with-gmail-speaks-out/#comment-444 I think these people are just plain rude. It's like cold calling salesmen and they get told to "go forth and multiply". I still say that shoving unwanted software, ads and any kind of spam is a huge invasion of privacy. I guess she might see the point if we all turn up in her garden with placards and loud speakers advertising corporate crap and intercept all her letters to see if we can target our ads just for her enjoyment. How can scanning our PRIVATE!!!! mail not be an invasion of privacy? Jeeez, they make my blood boil. :( :( I think these people are just plain rude. It’s like cold calling salesmen and they get told to “go forth and multiply”.
I still say that shoving unwanted software, ads and any kind of spam is a huge invasion of privacy. I guess she might see the point if we all turn up in her garden with placards and loud speakers advertising corporate crap and intercept all her letters to see if we can target our ads just for her enjoyment.
How can scanning our PRIVATE!!!! mail not be an invasion of privacy?
Jeeez, they make my blood boil. :( :(

]]> http://goodblimey.com/archives/2004/06/24/person-familiar-with-gmail-speaks-out/comment-page-1/#comment-442 Phy Fri, 25 Jun 2004 04:47:17 +0000 http://goodblimey.com/archives/2004/06/24/person-familiar-with-gmail-speaks-out/#comment-442 To further add to this discussion, my friend David Knopf wrote the following in response to the aforementioned thread:<quote>Yes, I agree with all that. I don't have any concern with the ad serving based on keyword matches. It may seem creepy to some people, but I don't think it's a legitimate privacy issue. The privacy issue has to do with matching the e-mail at gmail.google.com with your history of web searches at google.com. I think that is a legitimate privacy concern.</quote> To further add to this discussion, my friend David Knopf wrote the following in response to the aforementioned thread:Yes, I agree with all that. I don’t have any concern with the ad serving
based on keyword matches. It may seem creepy to some people, but I don’t
think it’s a legitimate privacy issue. The privacy issue has to do with
matching the e-mail at gmail.google.com with your history of web
searches at google.com. I think that is a legitimate privacy concern.

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