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Why do we let this creepy company called Google spy on our emails?

By Angela Levin
Last updated at 3:23 AM on 12th December 2010

To many, the colourful home page of Google is the friendly face of the internet. Indeed, the company, which was created 12 years ago by two American PhD students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, has always prided itself on its quirky presentation.

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"That may be true, but Google does use the content of your emails for commercial gain. It scans your words and searches for key words in the same way it does when you use the Google search engine.

When a key word from your email matches a key word in an advert in the Google bank, the relevant adverts electronically line up to hit first your email page and then your pocket."

I didn't know they did that.

I don't get stuff like that in my google email................

I let them do that because they offer a superior email service, for free. Besides there is no expectation of privacy when sending an unencrypted email.

Naive Much???http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...icon_smile.gif

1.-Clinton = Raptor

2.-Bush = Patriot Act

3.-Obama =Islamic/communist Assault on America

All true but nothing to do with Google. OTOH as Pondy points out. Email is not encrypted. ANYONE/EVERYONE can read your email as it passes through there servers on the way from the senders email server to your email server. And the government has and still is monitoring this. It's called Carnivore. The Feds will tell you that they only use it for authorized searches and wiretaps but it's not like the Feds have never lied and abused there powers before.

You know it is the WORLD WIDE WEB I personally have never expected any privacy.........besides I am pretty boring they are just reading my email to help them go to sleep, LOL!!!

if you want email privacy, get an email encrypter. You can even encrypt them using the AS13 (or whatever the hell it is called) encryption that the NSA uses. Unbreakable with current technology.

given what i have seen the Feds do, i no longer expect any privacy.

LOL. Took the words right outta my mouth!!! http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...s/icon_lol.gif

I think you are referring to AES/Rijndael standard. The only problem using that for email is that you have to share your passphrase. PGP is a better alternative for email as you use dual key encryption. You have a public and private key pair for encryption of the email. People use your public key to send mail to you while you use your private key to decrypt the mail you receive. Once encrypted it is mathematically impossible to decrypt it with out the private key AND the hash generated by the passphrase.