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This would be an excellent chance for Google et al. to just drop the permission of them reading Gmail users' e-mail from the terms of service. If they have no i
by Maakuth 13y ago
This would be an excellent chance for Google et al. to just drop the permission of them reading Gmail users' e-mail from the terms of service. If they have no intention of doing it, why leave it open in the terms?
- curiouscats 13y agoI agree, the lawyer denies it, then says we have the right to do so now and in the future. And adds, though I can't imagine when we ever would. The right to snoop through your email is the problem (the algorithmic searching to place ads I can understand some people finding annoying but that is the bargain for using Gmail - it isn't that I am talking about - it is the snooping for whatever purpose Google has for reading your emails by a person at Google). That you promise to not do what you give yourself the right to do is not worth much of anything. I don't imagine this lawyer would sign off on legal contracts that had bad clauses that the other side said "no, leave the contract the way it is, just trust us to not ever use that clause."
- nl 13y agoThere maybe cases where they need to read emails for debugging purposes (eg fixing a spam filtering problem). Perhaps this should require explicit permission.