Comment Re:Your mail isn't your mail anymore (Score 1) 612
> I think the facts that Gmail reads your incoming mail to choose which text ads it will show you is a very bad precedent.
The word reads is misleading. Google's computers will scan the message for keywords. No human is going around reading the mail, not even pieces deemed juicy by the scan (ignoring government-imposed requirements, as on any service's computers).
> Isn't it the first time someone offers a communication service and they tell you that they will know the content of every message you get?
"know the content"? -- They say they will store the mail on their servers. A mail system that stores actual mail text? It doesn't sound too outrageous to me.
But they will scan the text! -- Not the first time I've heard of this kind of thing. I think many mail systems these days actually scan the text of all mail messages under the guise of "detecting spam". I haven't heard such outcry about that.
The word reads is misleading. Google's computers will scan the message for keywords. No human is going around reading the mail, not even pieces deemed juicy by the scan (ignoring government-imposed requirements, as on any service's computers).
> Isn't it the first time someone offers a communication service and they tell you that they will know the content of every message you get?
"know the content"? -- They say they will store the mail on their servers. A mail system that stores actual mail text? It doesn't sound too outrageous to me.
But they will scan the text! -- Not the first time I've heard of this kind of thing. I think many mail systems these days actually scan the text of all mail messages under the guise of "detecting spam". I haven't heard such outcry about that.
