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Re: Google’s Inevitable Betrayal

Zhasper — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:57:13 -0000

And the answer is.. they archive all chats from all interfaces.

(Hurrah for a Google Alert finding this comment for me again)

Re: Google’s Inevitable Betrayal

Jason Powell — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:18:45 -0000

I drank the punch and bought the shoes. Google shoes, hippy.

Re: Google’s Inevitable Betrayal

Zhasper — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:53:59 -0000

Also - is there a general comments feed for all comments on your site?

Re: Google’s Inevitable Betrayal

Zhasper — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:51:08 -0000

Also - are they actually archiving all chats, or just chats done from within the gmail interface? I'm not clear on that..

Also - if you do use the chat option in gmail, you get the option to make your chat "off the record", meaning that it won't be saved in your gmail (nor in the other party's gmail, if they're chatting from within gmail as well).

If people are going to get huffy, they could at least get huffy about things that are actually a problem.

Re: Google’s Inevitable Betrayal

Zhasper — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:38:01 -0000

It's also dependant on the legislative environment Google lives in.

I, too, implicitly trust the current management of Google. However, I don't trust the US government - not neccessarily anything specific against that government, I just don't trust governments in general.

I'm sure we can all imagine scenarios in which the government of the day decided it was neccessary for themt o obtain complete access to all gmail archives etc - it's not too much of a stretch, given what the current government has tried to get access to.

The rest of this thought is left as an exercise for the reader.