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Since I just made a post about this on another forum, I thought I'd bring it here too. Now, if you want a free 1GB Email account then get it from Walla. Basically I said that GMail illegally scans the content of emails, and that this is privacy invasive. The reply was a simple "how can it be illegal if they tell you about it". Well the answer is that even if the customer did consent to the content of their own private emails being read by Google, unconsenting 3rd parties that send emails to GMail addresses, do not. Google is therefore illegally scanning the content of emails from 3rd parties.

Australian Privacy Foundation's letter

Here is the more important point:

Google has stated that the GMail system software will automatically scan the subject headers and contents of all these private emails to generate targeted advertisements relevant to the email content. Concerns have also been expressed that the scanning and automated content analysis will not only apply to GMail clients, but also to those with whom they correspond by email.

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but walla is not google... or have i misunderstood everything... again?
"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent."
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No, Walla is fine. It is not privacy invasive. It is not connected to Google, they are a different free email provider.
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oh ok...
"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent."
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it doesnt work... cant even send emails.
"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent."
Qui-Gon Jinn (R.I.P.)
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Hotmail accounts are up to 250MB per free account. No scanning there that I know of. No, it's not a gig, but who really needs that much space?
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Especially when hotmail limits the attachment size anyway.
If you're going to take forever, then I'm having a hotdog!
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You sending much over 10MB in size?
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No, I'm not. But when the emails are capped, it makes it that much harder to use a gig. I didn't have much of a point to begin with. Oh well.
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Originally posted by: Starboy
I didn't have much of a point to begin with. Oh well.


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Yahoo upped from 100 MB to 250 MB just recently, probably to counter Hotmail's move...meanwhile Juno (which I'm glad I quit using) is still at 2 MB. What are they thinking?
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