britishtrident
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| posted on 12/1/14 at 01:38 PM |
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Changes to GMail. - Major Privacy Concerns
Google is introducing major changes to GMail that will by default cause major threats to to user privacy by unless users opt-out.
Link to story on BBC News
Gmail update fuels privacy fears http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25680010
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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matt_gsxr
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| posted on 12/1/14 at 02:03 PM |
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The BBC story would have been more helpful if it explained how to avoid this "threat".
I have changed the "Who can email you via your Google+ profile?" to "no-one", but are there other changes that need
making?
Thanks in advance,
Matt
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 12/1/14 at 02:13 PM |
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Google Opt Out settings
Just checked mine and couldn't see the Google+ option shown in that article though.
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dhutch
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| posted on 12/1/14 at 03:40 PM |
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Urrrm, does this not simply mean that your google+ contacts can send you a mail via gmail? That's not the same as 'randomers being able to
email you without your contact information' in my book.
Daniel
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britishtrident
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| posted on 12/1/14 at 04:10 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by dhutch
Urrrm, does this not simply mean that your google+ contacts can send you a mail via gmail? That's not the same as 'randomers being able to
email you without your contact information' in my book.
Daniel
Much more than that for example if you email a seller to make a complaint then as far as I understand there is nothing to stop the seller contacting
you by any method that is on your profile.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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dhutch
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| posted on 12/1/14 at 04:28 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Much more than that for example if you email a seller to make a complaint then as far as I understand there is nothing to stop the seller contacting
you by any method that is on your profile.
Email a seller on what, ebay? Surely they get your email address, as they would now, and can email you either way round?
Daniel
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scudderfish
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| posted on 12/1/14 at 05:04 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Much more than that for example if you email a seller to make a complaint then as far as I understand there is nothing to stop the seller contacting
you by any method that is on your profile.
If you email a seller then they have your email address in the email.
This new thing means that someone on G+ can send me a message which appears in GMail. I can black hole it and they can never do it again. I can
ignore it and they can't send me any more messages. I can reply, at which point we both have each others email address and can communicate
outside of G+ by whatever email client we wish. It is the exact opposite of FB which took away the ability to contact someone through email and all
messaging must go through their servers.
The beauty of email is the interoperability of it. FB is trying to go back to the bad old days where Compuserve users could not send messages to AOL
users who could not send messages to email users. Comms silos are bad.
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ste
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| posted on 13/1/14 at 01:51 AM |
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Far less worse than the phone book to be honest.
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