Sometimes I show my kids videos featured on "The Kid Should See This." Probably because the title of their blog compels me to. I'm powerless before their Jedi mind trick.
Anyway, today we watched a video from Google promising to show how e-mail works. Instead, it talked about how awesome Google was for being so Earth-conscious. But also, notice the section where security is discussed.
"When your message reaches our data center, we protect it with a wide range of security measures, like security cameras, iris scans, and fingerprint scans in our buildings." Oooh, that sounds so secure. Ain't no way a Google employee is going to steal my e-mail! But later.... "Our servers work together to process your data, including duplicating your message to create backups..." and, um, sending one of the copies to the Federales. But don't worry: our buildings have iris scanners!
Given that Google has argued in court that Gmail users have "no legitimate expectation of privacy," why does "The Story of Send" mention security at all? As far as Google is concerned, anything I send in an e-mail is as good as publicly disclosed. They could have saved themselves a bundle on iris scanners and security cameras.
Google wants to make me believe no one is reading my e-mail, and then they want to read my e-mail all they want, and to send copies to the Federales just in case I do anything inflammatory like "rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority." Because only terrorists believe in crap like that.
via oneofthebest
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