Digital Home Thoughts: ExtremeTech: "Gmail: Stop The Whining"

"Search engine superpower Google recently announced its intentions to offer free a Web mail service, called Gmail, to its users. Well, as we all know, no good deed goes unpunished and Gmail is no exception. As soon as the Internet giant announced the specifics of its offering, privacy advocates and others began lambasting the company, complaining that Google's policies would violate user's privacy rights. While legitimate feedback on such a service can be useful, some "advocates" have gone off the deep end and engaged in outright and crass demonization of Google."



So we haven't posted on Gmail for a while but I think it is time to stir that discussion up again :). Gmail, Google's free 1GB of email storage service has given rise to a lot of controversy among those worried about privacy. Many people seemed horrified by the idea of their emails being scanned and were vehemently against it. From reading the comments on previous posts about Gmail here on DMT, most people didn't seem to care about Google scanning emails and doing their targeted advertising thing. But this article from extremetech.com looks at the service from the pro- standpoint (a very pro standpoint).