Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 07:56:22 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] I knew I didn't want a gmail account....
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Excerpt:
That suit, filed in May, claims Google "unlawfully opens up, reads, and
acquires the content of people's private email messages". It quotes Eric
Schmidt, Google's executive chairman: "Google policy is to get right up to
the creepy line and not cross it."

The suit claims: "Unbeknown to millions of people, on a daily basis and for
years, Google has systematically and intentionally crossed the 'creepy line'
to read private email messages containing information you don't want anyone
to know, and to acquire, collect, or mine valuable information from that mail."

In its motion to dismiss the case, Google said the plaintiffs were making
"an attempt to criminalise ordinary business practices" that have been part
of Gmail's service since its introduction. Google said "all users of email
must necessarily expect that their emails will be subject to automated
processing."

According to Google: "Just as a sender of a letter to a business colleague
cannot be surprised that the recipient's assistant opens the letter, people
who use web-based email today cannot be surprised if their communications
are processed by the recipient's ECS [electronic communications service]
provider in the course of delivery."
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<http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/14/google-gmail-users-privacy-email-lawsuit>

mark
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