{"id":125,"date":"2004-05-03T20:38:39","date_gmt":"2004-05-03T20:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/125"},"modified":"2004-05-03T20:38:39","modified_gmt":"2004-05-03T20:38:39","slug":"it-takes-two-to-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/125","title":{"rendered":"It takes two to email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Declan McCullagh <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2010-1032-5199224.html\">echos<\/a> something I&#8217;ve heard several places about Google&#8217;s Gmail service:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The objections lodged against Gmail are telling, because they illuminate two different views about how to respond to new technologies. The protechnology view says customers of a company should be allowed to make up their own mind and that government regulation should be a last resort. Privacy fundamentalists, on the other hand, insist that new services they believe to be harmful should be banned, even if consumers are clamoring for them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not one of the people clamoring to ban Gmail (see <a href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/000116.html\">previous post<\/a> for my own take) but the above argument does miss the important point that email is a two-way street. Maybe you&#8217;re happy to sign away your privacy to a third-party company, but I&#8217;ve signed no such agreement. When I send email to you or to a closed mailing list you&#8217;re on I have the expectation that, at the very least, you will first read the email before deciding to share it with a third party. I trust Google, but I want that expectation of privacy to continue after all the other email-providers follow suit with their own arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Declan McCullagh <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2010-1032-5199224.html\">echos<\/a> something I&#8217;ve heard several places about Google&#8217;s Gmail service:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The objections lodged against Gmail are telling, because they illuminate two different views about how to respond to new technologies. The protechnology view says customers of a company should be allowed to make up their own mind and that government regulation should be a last resort. Privacy fundamentalists, on the other hand, insist that new services they believe to be harmful should be banned, even if consumers are clamoring for them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not one of the people clamoring to ban Gmail (see <a href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/000116.html\">previous post<\/a> for my own take) but the above argument does miss the important point that email is a two-way street. Maybe you&#8217;re happy to sign away your privacy to a third-party company, but I&#8217;ve signed no such agreement. When I send email to you or to a closed mailing list you&#8217;re on I have the expectation that, at the very least, you will first read the email before deciding to share it with a third party. 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