On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Nick Whitelegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I'm using gmail. The way I read my user agreement google >>pretty much has the right to do anything they want with >>any information I give them. For that reason I'm careful >>not to put anything really important in my emails. > > I find that very hard to believe, that a mail service operator would have > the right to "steal" confidential > info in your email. Is there not a law against unauthorised reading of > emails? > Or am I missing something? >
Well, their Gmail T&C goes, "We will not use any of your content for any purpose except to provide you with the Service". I think you can expect that none of your content should show up elsewhere, and their privacy policy will apply to most stuff which essentially limits them to "aggregated non-personal information". You probably have a pile of rights beyond this, but don't expect Google to admit it. Some people get very paranoid (not without some justification -- in the general T&Cs it says uploading content to Google gives them a non-exclusive right to do just about anything they want with it), but there's a fair bit of FUD flying around as well. Dave _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
