Philip Stubbs wrote: > ...If anybody is going to trust their deepest darkest secrets to an > open postcard, then they are a fool.
The kind of data-mining that Google does on *everything* that you pass through their servers is not about logging our extra-marital affairs (if any!) or our carelessly revealed passwords or fanciful plans for taking over the world. It's about extracting keywords, key phrase, addresses and other data in order to analyse social associations, interests, preferences, likely behaviour, and so on, for their own use or for selling on to others. That's done on all the searches, documents, data files and e-mail addresses that pass through their servers (including the e-mails of all the people who post to you, even if they themselves are not googlemail account holders). Data-mining is not just about the 'privacy' of the immediate content. And Google is a world-class data-miner. If you're going to use *any* of their Web2.0 services, you have to understand this, and decide whether you personally find it acceptable. I don't. (And, in case you're wondering, I use scroogle for searches.) Right. I'm not going to post anything else about this. But I am grateful to folk who - in the main topic of this thread - gave me good information about mail hosting services. mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
