Lunacy du jour from Lawmakers With Nothing Better To Do . . . a California state senator who's proposing legislation to block the fledgling Google Mail service on the grounds that it is an "invasion of privacy."
G-mail is an in-progress free mail service - an in-your-face to Hotmail and Yahoo Mail - that comes with strings attached. A machine is going to read your e-mail and attach contextual ads. (See previous rant on this)
Plus side - searchability and organization of all your e-mail archives, aggressive spam filtering and gazillabytes of storage space. Downside - the aforementioned contextual screening, plus you can't delete mail.
I'm not rushing out to get G-mail anytime soon. I don't get the quantum leap in service over other free e-mail. And I'm not sure I want all my mail hanging around forever. But sheesh . . . it's my choice . . . or ought to be.
Somebody needs to tell Sen. Liz Figueroa that laws that control my own decisions about my right to privacy are an invasion of my privacy.
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Posted by: Jeff Anderson | 2005.08.02 at 09:33