Backpage.com seized by U.S. justice authorities

Re:Backpage.com seized by U.S. justice authorities by joefkelley on Friday April 06, 2018 @06:23PM (#16778029)

This is no longer the case. No email data is used for any ad targeting.

But yeah, similarly useful technology exists. I don't know if it's in use at all in order to fight abuse like this.

Source: https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in... (and I work on Gmail ads).

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Re:Backpage.com seized by U.S. justice authorities by DrScump on Saturday April 07, 2018 @04:02AM (#16779867)

  No email data is used for any ad targeting

I know they claim that, but why do all clickable links in Gmail have google.com wrappers that are forwarding links to the desired destination?

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Re:Backpage.com seized by U.S. justice authorities by oneshot908 on Friday April 06, 2018 @07:35PM (#16778445)

So since apparently your employers are going through people's Google Drive accounts and removing pornographic content: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgwnp/porn-on-go...

Doesn't that mean you are now on the hook for enabling sex trafficking with SESTA if a gmail account was used? Or is there a loophole wherein if you promise extra double hard not to look at said content, you're not liable? But in that case, why are you guys deleting teh p0rnz?

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Re:Backpage.com seized by U.S. justice authorities by joefkelley on Friday April 06, 2018 @08:38PM (#16778723)

It's not clear to me how those two topics are related.

If it's about whether Google "knowingly" enabled sex trafficking, then it seems like a pretty simple argument is "sure, we knew about porn, but we didn't know about the sex trafficking" is a pretty reasonable defense.

Also, I don't know, I just work here.

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