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1. For about last 4-5 years ,we have come across many debates about how so many companies are minting our private data and associating that with third parties to create a profile based marketing environment in and around the naive user....and except for the few white papers about the technicalities involved in doing this ...max of the companies had denied mincing with privacy..but actually they were just mincing with words to have their way inside the privacy den of each user!!!!and now the big revelation from Google comes as part of small news...and that says
"Google Tells Court You Cannot Expect Privacy When Sending Messages to Gmail -- People Who Care About Privacy Should Not Use Service"
But it seems that the meaning has been mis interpreted....
The complete extract available here at http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/resources/googlemotion061313.pdf
2. Isn't it a big news otherwise!!!!but the news has been put across the web as just a small snippet news....
"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 provider in the course of delivery.
Indeed, “a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in
information he voluntarily turns over to third parties.” Smith v.
Maryland, 442 U.S. 735, 743-44 (1979). In particular, the Court noted
that persons communicating through a service provided by an intermediary
(in the Smith case, a telephone call routed through a telephone
company) must necessarily expect that the communication will be subject
to the intermediary’s systems. For example, the Court explained that in
using the telephone, a person “voluntarily convey[s] numerical
information to the telephone company and ‘expose[s]’ that information to
its equipment in the ordinary course of business.”
3. Now this declaration by Google has two connotations : one from point of view of a user who is only concerned about his private life,his social exchanges with friends,relative and office staff...and then the other point of view has a deeper meaning to it.The line highlighted above has been widely misinterpreted to make it seem like Google is saying Gmail users have no expectation of privacy when they use Gmail. To clarify and paint a better picture,Google's argument is about non-Gmail users who haven't signed Google's terms of service. It's right there in black and white — the heading for the section literally starts with the words "The Non-Gmail Plaintiffs."
4. But that does not mean the gmail users can take a back seat and relax about being safe again...the issue is too complex to have a clear cut YES...OR NO....the surfing goes on.....
