Google, Gmail and privacy
Sunday, January 22nd, 2006
In a move that may surprise many doom-sayers (like me) who fret about
It’s important to recognise that the DoJ only asked for “de-identified” data, aggregated statistics that cannot be linked to individual users.
But Google refused, partly because it fears turning the information over will create the public perception that Google doesn’t protect the privacy of its users.
Leslie Walker at the Washington Post has written a very interesting article in response on what exactly Google does know about individual users. Or you could browse the 934 hits on the story at Google News.
In further Google-realated privacy news, Gmail has introduced a more visible
Certainly the button removes the messages from the web interface, but whether it really means that they have gone, or whether they lurk around in Google’s massive data collection system is another matter. Gmail’s
Whoops, there I go again….
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