[Sigia-l] Issues in the taxonomy of human experience

[Manu Sharma]

Skot Nelson:

> similarly, many think google is doing no evil while others are  horrified 
> by the content sensitive ads that appear beside your gmail  messages. 
> google is searching the content of messages to deliver ads.

Is this 2004? The Gmail privacy issue is a long forgotten story. There is no 
significant protest against it today even from privacy organisations.  No 
one's "horrified" anymore. It was a misunderstanding emerging from people's 
dim understanding of how Google scanned emails.

For example see this:

The Fuss About Gmail and Privacy: Nine Reasons Why It's Bogus
by Tim O'Reilly
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4707

Even the negative news coverage that Google gets these days make no mention 
of the Gmail privacy episode (the points they raise are just as flimsy). See 
this report in today's NY Times for example

Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the Villain
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/24/technology/24valley.html

Manu.