Gmail Invite

So how do you get invites? How does that work?

 

You are right. You can delete them from your inbox. But they still stay on their server until they are done with them.


Care to post what you are talking about out of their user agreement? They do have motive...advertising. You already stated they use what is in your emails for advetisement purposes.

 

Correct the Gmail Servers Scan the Email looking for "keywords" in which is uses that to Display Targeted ads

this is ALOT ALOT more intrusive than any other Web Mail Provider, and Illegal for any ISP....... unless directed by Law Enforcment, which since the Partiot Act killed all Personal Privacy does not take much....


I have been Following Gmail from the Word Go.. even before it was widely known in the Public..

at first it was GREAT until all the Nasty Details started to Emerge

it is fine if you trust google as a company, but since I trust no one that couts me out

it is true that the only way to get a good security is through High Level Encyption, but than that makes you look suspect to anyone that is watching, Although I have been guilty of Send encypted messages of just gibberish to people just for the hell of it see is some black suits came to my door :blush:

:blush: :bye: :lmfao:

 

I stand corrected on them reading your email.

But they tell you because they have to. Would be illegal for them not to.

 

Google can read all the emails of mine they want to - I've got nothing to hide. If was stupid enough to send emails about illegal activity, then I deserve to get in some shit for it (which I doubt would ever happen anyway).

 

it is that kind of logic that leads to us losing more and more Freedoms everyyear...

Granted that has nothing to do with Google or Gmail, but saying that is stupid

that is like saying "the cops can Look around my House anytime they want, I am not Breaking the Law"

So lets go ahead and shrow out the 4th admendment...

it is all fine until the wrong person abuses the power, say you allow a company to read all of your personal email, you email a freind bitching about your Boss, a thrid party reads that email and fowards it to your Boss.. Your know fired....

under current privacy laws you could sue. but by allowing the 3rd party access you now have not Recourse

things Like Trade Secrets or any other Information that may not be illegal, but you still dont want the world to know, now becomes more or less public domain.........


Time to see the Larger Picture here

 

this reminds me of Enemy of the State with Will Smith...lol
-Cody

 

Michael, please don't take offense to this, but you really read too much into things sometimes. Just because I say Google can read whatever they want doesn't imply I am complacent with my freedoms being taken away. The two are mutually exlusive in my book. It's not like Google is Big Brother here. Trust me, I am with you on keeping as many of my freedoms in tact as possible.

 

not taking offense

but it is not as far as a leap as you think

IMO Big Business == Big Brother

 

Google != big business IMO. Ford, Microsoft, etc = big business. We might as well say The Zeb is big business while we are at it.

 

when dd the zeb get to be worth 1.67 BILLION dollars????????

 

Wow, this thread sure went in a new direction. :huh:

 

But on a serious note. WHO CARES? If they give you a FREE account, let them do whatever the hell they want to. If you were paying for it, that would be different.

PS, sorry about the double reply, i tried to edit and hit reply :/

 

with logic like that, no wonder why the contry is falling apart

 

Same time crude oil was worth almost $50/bbl...oh wait, it is back down to $43/bbl.

What Google is worth on paper means nothing to me in terms of its affect on my life.

 

Is your last name Savage by any chance?

I just don't think someone signing up for a Google email account and not worrying about Google searching through emails implies a non-caring attitude about this nation. That just means I have nothing to hide from Google. If they want to place ads along the right side of my browser for midgit porn, then so be it. You might was well extend your ideology to say something like "anyone that shops at Amazon and has cookies placed on their computer is a red commie." Same thing goes with physical stores that keep tabs on what people buy and then advertise accordingly.

 

well you said they were not "big business" ford has ZERO inpact on my life. google I use everyday..........

Google had the 8th largest IPO in US History..

They had a Revenue of just under 1 billion last year and with a 100million dollar profit, they have a 400million dollar profit allreayd this year (not including the IPO revenue)
and they have over a billion dollars in assessts..

they are not a small company, not by a long shot.