[IP] more on connecting The Dots with Google's New Gmail service

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Delivered-To: dfarber+@ux13.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:05:07 -0500
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
Subject: Re: [IP] connecting The Dots with Google's New Gmail service
To: dave@farber.net

I think there are serious grounds to worry about the privacy aspects of
Google's new email service.  Apart from the fact that they admit
they're looking at content -- since when should a communications
carrier do that? -- other practices of Google and its affiliates leave
me very uneasy.  For example, the privacy statement from Orkut, a
Google social networking affiliate, explicitly gives them the right to
share personally identifiable information with Google.  I find it hard
to square this sort of behavior with one of their own self-proclaimed
"cherished core values": "Don't be evil" (that quote is on
http://www.google.com/jobs/great-people-needed.html).

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb

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