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"Peter pointed out that if all of your friends use GMail, Google has your email anyway." Peter reminds me of the old "If you have nothing to hide..." fallacy.
by blueskin_ 12y ago
"Peter pointed out that if all of your friends use GMail, Google has your email anyway."
Peter reminds me of the old "If you have nothing to hide..." fallacy. I'd have expected more from the EFF.
Yes, anything really sensitive should be PGP'd anyway, but using gmail still gives google the opportunity to do analytics's.
- ronaldx 12y agoI also found it surprising that Peter Eckersley would be satisfied to justify his use of Gmail in this way. Peter seems to believe that using Gmail makes his friends' privacy incrementally worse, and yet he is contributing to this problem. What he really means is: Gmail is more convenient than the other options - there is no better solution to this. And, that's the problem.