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I'm going to stick with the landlord analogy. It needs to be possible to use a 3rd party service without them being allowed to spy on you, the same way it's po
by cookingrobot 13y ago
I'm going to stick with the landlord analogy. It needs to be possible to use a 3rd party service without them being allowed to spy on you, the same way it's possible to rent an apartment without the landlord being allowed to spy on you.
They're certainly able to, and have the keys, but they're not allowed.
Privacy laws should be created (or interpreted) to provide similar protection for the privacy of our data stored by a service.
- iSnow 13y agoIf you rent an apartment, you pay for it. If you use Gmail, you don't. Google somehow has to make money from something, so there is a incentive to mine your data. But the main point is: an apartment is not an information system. Throughout history, governments have spied on information systems and systems providers will too. Hell, spouses spy on each other, given the chance. It is simply common sense to limit the attack surface you present by hosting your own mail server - or not to care.
- ghshephard 13y agoI certainly pay google a fee for my Gmail account, as do most people I know who use Gmail, so don't be so certain of the "If you use gmail you don't pay for it."
- camus2 13y agomost Gmail users dont.
- ghshephard 13y agoI'm pretty sure that everyone who uses Google as the email manager for their domain now have to pay google - that includes business, universities, individuals, etc... The only people who get "free" gmail, are people with an @gmail.com account, which in these days seems to be an awfully bad approach - makes it hard to switch your email to another provider if you run into issues with the old one.
- stephenbez 13y agoI pay for my Gmail: http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/ http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/