Well when you phrase it like that, I guess I prefer the second option.

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On Sep 13, 2013, at 9:43 AM, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Its the society we live in I'm afraid and the choice is simple enough, either 
> we have privacy and we have more attacks like 9/11 or we allow data to be 
> collected and analysed in the hope of a peaceful world, can't have it 2 ways.
> 
> On 13/09/2013, at 11:29 PM, Josh Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, anybody who thinks we have privacy, not taking a stab at anyone, but 
>> we really don't. Not anymore.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Sep 13, 2013, at 9:19 AM, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> The title of the documentary is a little deceptive and should be changed to 
>>> "In Technology We Trust", I'm only supposing that the producers of the 
>>> documentary named the programme the way they did as Google is a household 
>>> name.
>>> 
>>> In the documentary you quickly learn that Apple is just as bad when it 
>>> comes to online security and so forth as anyone else.
>>> 
>>> As for Google doing what they do? Well again its not something that worries 
>>> me all that much, privacy is something that has long and truly left us so 
>>> as users we need to be particularly careful what we do online.
>>> 
>>> The documentary doesn't just focus on Internet activities either, the 
>>> collection, matching and usage of Data goes well beyond the net.
>>> 
>>> The video should be available shortly and I'll post the link when it is.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 13/09/2013, at 9:31 PM, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I have always expressed my distrust of Google and that is especially true 
>>>> of their email services.  It is my understanding that Google stores 
>>>> archives of all email passing through its system regardless of user 
>>>> preferences.  So, consider:  You place an order with an online store, and 
>>>> they send you an email confirming your purchase order.  I have seen 
>>>> vendors who do not strip out card numbers from confirmation emails.  So, 
>>>> if you haffen to be purchasing from one of these vendors and you are using 
>>>> Google Mail as your email provider, Google then has full details of not 
>>>> only your personal address and quite possibly telephone number, but they 
>>>> also have an email in their archive containing your credit or debit card 
>>>> number.
>>>> Happily, such cases are becoming more rare due to the fact that more and 
>>>> more online vendors are becoming security conscious.  All the same, it 
>>>> makes me shudder when I think about the possibilities of fraudulant 
>>>> practices owing to card details being stored in the archives of a service 
>>>> provider.
>>>> Naturally, I'm not pointing the finger of blame at any specific individual 
>>>> here.  But I for one am extremely glad that I don't use a public mail 
>>>> provider such as Google or Hotmail.
>>>> I always wonder why people feel the need to use these facilities at all 
>>>> when, in the majority of cases, Internes service providers usually 
>>>> opporate their own internal servers, offering their users a far more 
>>>> secure means of email than Google or Hotmail.  Can somebody who uses one 
>>>> of these services explain to me why they do so?  Is it because they wish 
>>>> to segregate mail and/or restrict the distribution of certain mail 
>>>> accounts to different friends or providers?  If so, why not just take up 
>>>> the secondary mailbox services which the service provider also usually 
>>>> offers, or else take out an account with another privately run server, 
>>>> such as Mac Access or similar?
>>>> It is also worth considering the use of mail rules in most modern clients. 
>>>>  For instance, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Eudora, Outlook Express, Outlook 
>>>> 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013 all fully support sophistiaated Email rules and 
>>>> junk filtering.  So what is the advantage of having numerous accounts in 
>>>> numerous places?
>>>> 
>>>> whilst it is certainly true that some mail providers do opperate a mail 
>>>> quota policy, thereby restricting a user to various amounts of either 
>>>> throughput or incoming mail, responsible use of the Email system should 
>>>> avoid problems.  For example, all Mailman servers or compatible, (which 
>>>> accounts for over 98 percent of all maib services which handle list 
>>>> traffic), have both websites where you can custoomise or temporarily 
>>>> disable delivery of mail without actually leaving the list, plus the fact 
>>>> that the email mechanism itself can be used to manipulate the delivery of 
>>>> mail traffic.
>>>> This is a pet subject for me, but I've waffled enough for the time being.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: Dane Trethowan <[email protected]
>>>> To: "Techno-Chat ...  Technology Enthusiasm!" <[email protected]
>>>> Date sent: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 23:56:56 +1000
>>>> Subject: In Google we Trust
>>>> 
>>>> This is a must watch 4 Corners programme, saw it last night and its 
>>>> repeated again on Saturday evening on ABC News 24.
>>>> 
>>>> You can of course watch the programme through ABC iView or get further 
>>>> details, see videos and interviews at 
>>>> <http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2013/09/09/3842009.htm
>>>> 
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