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Google Ends Privacy
Renegade:
anyone having potentially damaging conversations over someone else's network pretty much deserves to be caught IMHO.-Eóin (January 28, 2012, 11:02 PM)
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Foresight is a good thing, yes. But *every* network is someone else's network. Just like every land-line is someone else's, yet we expect privacy of our (analog) phone conversations. Or used to, anyway.
-tranglos (January 29, 2012, 07:11 AM)
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I think a lot of these boil down to reasonable expectations for privacy and the like.
Like, you wouldn't expect to have your dinner conversation recorded at a restaurant. That's just wonky. (Though, I think it will eventually get there if we continue down this path...)
You're paying for a service (one way or another), so... That portion of the network during its use belongs to YOU.
Tuxman:
Nice, Godwin's Law. ;D @ above
Renegade:
Nice, Godwin's Law. ;D @ above
-Tuxman (January 29, 2012, 08:04 AM)
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But accurate.
40hz:
Just to get in some outside (although hardly unbiased) comment and opinion, courtesy of gHacks website. (link to full article here):
Microsoft’s Guide For Gmail Users To Switch To Hotmail
Google recently revealed the plan to merge the privacy policies and terms of service for most of the company’s products. This move gives all Google services direct access to all user data. Google search for instance can take into account what kind of emails a user gets in Gmail to personalize the search results based on that. This even goes further for Android phone users, who may now reveal their favorite restaurants, shops and locations to all other Google services.
A new post by Microsoft employee Dharmesh Mehta on the Inside Windows Live blog highlights core reasons why users might want to switch from Gmail to Hotmail, before explaining the actual steps that migrates their email account to the Hotmail email service.
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Note: gHacks does point out that significant differences between Hotmail and GMail (i.e. Hotmail's lack of IMAP support and 2-step authentication) doesn't make moving to Hotmail a simple swap since you're dealing with 'apples and 'oranges' comparisons between the two services.
Something to keep in mind.
tranglos:
Nice, Godwin's Law. ;D @ above
-Tuxman (January 29, 2012, 08:04 AM)
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But accurate.
-Renegade (January 29, 2012, 08:20 AM)
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Yeah, Godwin's Law should be properly called Godwin's Theorem. Then we could avoid the common misunderstanding when it gets interpreted as a law-that-you-get-punished-for-breaking. It's merely a statistical / social observation. It does not (or was not meant to) regulate discussion.
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