Google unveils email scanning practices in new terms of service

If it's something sensitive,then don't use any social media or e-mail to convey the message. People need not worry about their privacy being invaded upon since it's a practise that will prevail and nothing the public can do will stop it.

Main use for things like e-mail is to contact relatives, friends, perhaps business related and online banking. Now those things are small potato matters and people shouldn't worry if the NSA or corporations is going through them. There is no harm those information will do to you, so let them have their ways and spy on all your 'private' communications.

 

I don't like anyone Profiling me then selling the information for $$$$

 

Like Dougie, I hate the idea that someone else can make money from any part of me that should be private, whether by profiling or otherwise. Because of their well known lack of respect for privacy I stay at arms length from anything to do with Google, still have to use 'em for searches though.
However invasion of privacy happens, and when all is said and done sending messages by e mail is free.

To some extent the other option of snail mail does give greater privacy as you put your message in an envelope, seal it by gluing the flap, and so long as it arrives intact and the seal not tampered with, your privacy is hopefully not breached, however you pay postage on each message which in turn helps pay for the service.

If someone could or would set up a paid for e mail service with the promise of full privacy, it may work, though government or governmental agencies will still be able to search those messages if only by applying through due process, they still will, by using anti terrorist legislation or other legislation that can give them the right to do so.

 

I try and use Emails as least as possible. I dislike Google for their practices.
I am using Skype more and more and less emails as I trust Microsoft more then Google.
The better of two evils.

 

Well remember once again there is a price to pay by somebody somewhere for FREE. As I always say, "Why would anyone I don't know and am not related to give me someth9ing for nothing that was worth it for me to have?"
And again the remedy is so obviously also FREE, use another mail source.
For years I worried about Google reselling things it gained from me and then one day I stopped to think about it and decided I should rather be flattered than annoyed if I had something that was actually worthwhile that I created, that someone thought was worth using! Isn't that exactly what we do here on a public forum? Yet here when someone solves a problem based on something we tell them we are flattered aren't we?