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On Sunday 29 Jan 2012 19:12:17 Dale wrote: |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > have you read googles privacy changes yourself? |
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> > I just did - and there is nothing new or unusual. |
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> I read some more on it but I'm thinking about what will be coming next. |
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> It seems when a company goes public like Google did a while back, |
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> facebook is about too, they go downhill a bit privacy wise and it is |
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> like rolling down a hill. It takes a while but it happens. |
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> Thing about me having fastmail or something, it is me voting with my |
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> money, not me leaving with no vote against someone else's money. Right |
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> now, google is only worried about the money from ads which is something |
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> I can't control. If fastmail tries this, when I leave it is my money |
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> they lose. Fastmail will think about me not some ad that may or may not |
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> be coming. Since I will be a paying customer, I won't have any ads |
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> anyway. |
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> I am looking into Yandex too. Are they Russian or something? I'm kind |
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> of leaning towards them for a couple reasons but trying to figure them |
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> out. I'm trying to do this slow and with a deeper knowledge this time |
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> so I don't have to go through this again later on. |
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> Plus, I just don't like being tracked all over the place anyway. We |
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> have a big enough brother already. |
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As far as I can tell all that is changing with Google is they are going to |
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join up in terms of user authentication, hitherto separate portals or apps |
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they had. I do not see a material difference to what is there now. |
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Fastmail, Google, Yahoo!, Yandex, et al, are all public ISPs and are making |
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their money one way or another. It is in their benefit to respect users |
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privacy, but don't for a minute think that your info while in their systems |
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can be deemed as private. Unless you use encryption they can probe it, |
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analyse it, read it, categorise it, etc. Whether it is Google ads bureau, or |
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CIA, or FSB, there is not much of a difference between them as far as the |
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privacy of your data is concerned. |
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I think that you are worrying yourself unnecessarily, although there is no |
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harm in being cautious all the same. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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