{"id":12308,"date":"2018-07-03T09:44:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=12308"},"modified":"2019-12-24T10:28:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T18:28:37","slug":"who-is-reading-your-gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/07\/03\/who-is-reading-your-gmail\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is reading your Gmail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gmail users, be aware: &#8220;Gmail has 1.4 billion email users. Every one of those users has agreed to terms of service that give third parties permission to read their email. <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2018\/07\/03\/if-you-use-gmail-know-that.html\">And, of course that&#8217;s just what they do<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, this summary is <em>slightly<\/em> alarmist (but only slightly), as you do need to have given permission by signing up for an offer or service that performs this sort of activity. But that&#8217;s not exactly an unlikely scenario for many people.<\/p>\n<p>Just one more reason why I&#8217;ve done my best to move away from Gmail whenever possible. While I still have a Gmail account, I moved to Apple&#8217;s mail services a few years back, and the Gmail account is little more than a spam and \u201cI need to either unsubscribe or update my email settings&#8221; catcher at this point. I&#8217;d have nuked it entirely if I could figure out how to transfer my various Google accounts to a different email (which they don&#8217;t seem to be interested in letting you do, or at least telling you how to do so).<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Apple&#8217;s another Big Company, and there are those who distrust them as well. But I trust <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/privacy\/\">Apple&#8217;s privacy stance<\/a> much, <em>much<\/em> more than I do <a href=\"https:\/\/privacy.google.com\">Google&#8217;s<\/a>. It&#8217;s been a long time since I put much stock in Google&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-dont-be-evil-from-1826153393\">late, lamented<\/a>, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be evil&#8221; philosophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gmail users, be aware: &#8220;Gmail has 1.4 billion email users. Every one of those users has agreed to terms of service that give third parties permission to read their email. And, of course that&#8217;s just what they do.\u201d Admittedly, this summary is slightly alarmist (but only slightly), as you do need to have given permission &#8230; <a title=\"Who is reading your Gmail?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/07\/03\/who-is-reading-your-gmail\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Who is reading your Gmail?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2038],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}