Google Reads Your Email

Privacy advocates are up in arms over Google's new free email service, Gmail. Their concern? Google plans to "read" each email and add relevant AdSense advertising.


Google claims that they'll only read incoming mail, though if Gmail users send email to other Gmail users they will effectively read the outgoing mail as well.


They claim they will not log which adds appear to which users, nor will they record the keywords that appear.


Some privacy activists have compared this practice to your phone company listening to your phone conversation and cutting in to pitch products based on your discussion.


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