Articles in the Gmail Category
Data Aggregation, Facial recognition, Gmail, Riya, Web 2.0 »
The Google Operating System blog reports that when uploading pictures for your contacts, Gmail will ask you to crop the picture, to separate the face of the person. The result? Google has a database of multiple images for a lot of people, along with their names, e-mail addresses, street addresses, phone numbers, and whatever else contact information you include.
Combined with Riya, where users have upoaded over 7 million personal photos to Riya’s servers and tagged and labeled the subject’s faces to be searchable via Riya’s facial recognition technology, we are …
4th Amendment, Gmail, Google, Privacy »
Michael Froomkin links to a story about a Federal Trade Commission subpoena sent to Google for the complete contents of a Gmail account, including deleted e-mail messages. (This is unrelated to the DOJ’s subpoena to Google for search terms and excerpts from its search database.) From the article:
The subpoena asks for not only current e-mail but also deleted e-mail: “All documents concerning all Gmail accounts of Baker…for the period from Jan. 1, 2003, to present, including but not limited to all e-mails and messages stored in all mailboxes, folders, in-boxes, …
Gmail, Google, Online Privacy, Values in Design »
Simson Garfinkel has a very timely article in the latest Technology Review titled “In Google We Trust.” Garfinkel warns of some of the privacy concerns with Google’s Gmail, and calls on Google to respond by implementing privacy-protecting policies and design features. It’s worth a read.
