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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Thursday, April 22, 2004

Too Much Time On Her Hands

California State Senator Liz Figueroa (D-Fremont) has introduced legislation to block Gmail, Google's new free text-ad supported email service.
"Telling people that their most intimate and private e-mail thoughts to doctors, friends, lovers and family members are just another direct-marketing commodity isn't the way to promote e-commerce," Figueroa said in a statement, which called Gmail customers' correspondence "a direct-marketing opportunity for Google."

Figueroa's bill says an e-mail or instant-messaging provider can scan outgoing messages from its users, but not incoming ones. It includes a narrow exception for spam and virus filtering.
I honestly don't see the problem she has with this. Google is being very up-front and straightforward about how the system works--it's not like they're hiding the fact that their system will scan your mail for relevant keywords. If you can't deal with that, don't sign up. It's that simple.
Meanwhile, Blogger's front page is now offering Gmail beta accounts (Blogger is, of course, owned by Google). I signed up but am having difficulties logging in with my user-agent of choice. Hopefully that will be resolved soon.
|| Andrew, 6:54 PM || ||

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