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    Gmail Pictures Used For Face Recognition?

    Monday, August 14th, 2006

    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 […]

    Deleted Gmail Subpoenaed

    Sunday, March 19th, 2006

    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 […]

    In Google We Trust

    Monday, January 23rd, 2006

    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.