Posted on 06/23/2017 5:09:31 PM PDT by Innovative
Google plans to abandon its longstanding practice of scanning user email in its Gmail service to serve targeted advertising.
Google said it does not scan the email of paying corporate customers of its G Suite of services, but it made the policy change — announced in a company blog post on Friday — on its free consumer version to eliminate confusion and create one uniform policy toward Gmail.
As it builds its Google Cloud business for selling internet infrastructure and services to corporate customers, Google is trying to ease concerns that it will use data from corporate customers to help its mainstay advertising business.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Right
Good, I won’t have to embed things like “Hillary blow-up doll” in my Gmail any more!
The NSA, CIA, and FBI will be providing off-setting revenue.
Makes sense...
They already pay Google for managing HIPAA and a few other things...
Yeah. And I can sell anyone interested the Brooklyn Bridge...
*wink* *wink*
Oh? What will they be scanning for?
Now if Comcast would stop using what you say around their voice controlled remote...
I have had ads relevant to my conversation pop up on the screen... Me:”I wish we had a good pizza shop around here” — the screen: “Looking for a pizza shop?”. It happened enough for the remote to go in the trash.
I saw Jon Pajama Boi Ossoff described as a “blow-up candidate.”
Not sure I’d want my e-mail going thru Switzerland servers.....How long have you used it?
About 14 months thus far ..... lots of travel , the encryption is good , meets my needs, never a problem. CH is pretty good place for legal, above board, day to day ..... VPN’s, E-Mail .....
https://protonmail.com/security-details
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Why you need a security key for Gmail
Your primary email (the one you give to banks, social media sites, etc.) is the most important online account you have. If an attacker can take over your primary email account, they can reset passwords on every other service that uses that email for account recovery.
A security key is a physical token (similar to a thumb drive) that offers you the highest possible level of protection against impostor websites that trick you into typing your Gmail password (phishing).
If you use a security key, an attacker will not be able to log into your email account even if they learn your password, and even if they can fool you into trying to log in to an impostor site that they control.
Who this guide is for
This guide is designed for regular humans. It will walk you through the steps of effectively protecting your Gmail account with a security key, without explaining in detail the reasons for each step.
https://techsolidarity.org/resources/security_key_gmail.htm
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