{"id":32,"date":"2004-06-20T14:54:32","date_gmt":"2004-06-20T14:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2004-06-20T14:54:32","modified_gmt":"2004-06-20T14:54:32","slug":"the-gmail-privacy-issue-my-e002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"The Gmail privacy issue &#8211; my \u00e2\u201a\u00ac0.02"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given the plethora of opinions on the subject &#8211; like those of the broadly welcoming <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/pub\/wlg\/4707\">Tim O&#8217;Reilly<\/A> and the largely naive &#8216;gmail-is-too-creepy&#8217; folks over at <A HREF=\"http:\/\/gmail-is-too-creepy.com\/\">Public Information Research Inc.<\/A> I will keep this brief.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you have major privacy issues, you perhaps shouldn&#8217;t be using email. At all. Ever. Or the internet. Or a debit card. Or a library. Or a health service.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Common or garden email is by definition insecure, not particularly private and leaves bits of your life all over the place.  Just run a traceroute to your mail server and count the hops to get there.  What makes me hoot is that the PIR Inc. folks above have thrown up a whole anti-scary advertising-supported web-based email site with the obligatory &#8216;About Us&#8217; page&#8230;with a Yahoo email address!  That&#8217;s Yahoo. Who&#8217;ve just increased their mailbox size to compete with Gmail. And also scan email. And also target advertising on their Group emails. And display this message:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/yahoonotice.bmp\"><br \/>\nI rest my case.  <\/p>\n<p>As for me, I think it looks nicer than many GUIs, has some good features which I&#8217;ll use and some I probably won&#8217;t.  More than likely, I&#8217;ll use it for maillist\/forum stuff and the like as does my friend Pocket Goddess, who has written a fair and balanced appraisal of the service <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketgoddess.com\/features\/20040525_1730_GMail.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the plethora of opinions on the subject &#8211; like those of the broadly welcoming Tim O&#8217;Reilly and the largely naive &#8216;gmail-is-too-creepy&#8217; folks over at Public Information Research Inc. I will keep this brief. If you have major privacy issues, you perhaps shouldn&#8217;t be using email. At all. Ever. Or the internet. Or a debit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}