Staying at the forefront of email security and reliability

Re:Staying at the forefront of email security and reliability by belorn on Thursday March 20, 2014 @04:03PM (#7438257)

For money, one could have Google provide ads to users who vote for specific party. After a few days, you look at the logs and create a database of people and their voting habits. Thus you will now have a database of personal information, created by the action of giving money to Google. When you pay money for a product, its called bought.

So I will call it bought personal user information, regardless if it has been laundered by advertisement clicks.

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Re:Staying at the forefront of email security and reliability by cromwellian on Thursday March 20, 2014 @05:37PM (#7438997)

How is Google going to know what party you voted for, when votes are by secret ballot? Voter registration databases, which are public information available for a small fee from state governments, are far more likely to yield a profile of your voting behavior than your gmail contents.

Not only that, but anyone can opt-out of interest based ads for Gmail. Just go to Ad Settings (https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en)

You have the choice of not seeing targeted and relevant ads, or of not using gmail at all. Try Fastmail for instance. I don't see the need to bash Google for doing the right thing on security.

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