Calif. lawmaker moves to block Google's Gmail: "California State Sen. Liz Figueroa, D-Fremont, will introduce a SB 1822, that would require Google to obtain the consent of every user of the new gmail service before their e-mail messages are scanned for targeted advertising. Figueroa's SB 1822 would forbid the review of e-mail content unless Google or any other e-mail provider first obtains the consent of all the parties to an e-mail conversation.
I think Figueroa has found the Achilles' heel of gmail. Scanning for spam to come up with a yes/no/maybe determination cannot be equated with the keyword scanning done by gmail. I don't know what language is proposed to distinguish spam scanning from targeted ad scanning, but I don't think it would be hard to articulate such a distinction.
(Google has not even stated, to the best of my knowledge, whether the keywords from incoming email will be associated with the email address of the sender in their own in-house database.)
If this becomes law, it will probably stop gmail in its tracks. Extra spin in the privacy policy won't solve this problem. "
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