STONEZONE (Jean Torrealba) - The Betrayal of Trust: Why Gmail is Not a Public Service
We trust our email providers to be neutral carriers of our private thoughts, much like a postal service. Google has traded that trust for a surveillance model that scans, stores, analyzes, and manipulates. In an age of invisible algorithms, how do we rebuild a digital world where «free» doesn’t mean «surrendered»? In 2012, when I […] The post The Betrayal of Trust: Why Gmail is Not a Public Service appeared first on StoneZone .
We trust our email providers to be neutral carriers of our private thoughts, much like a postal service. Google has traded that trust for a surveillance model that scans, stores, analyzes, and manipulates. In an age of invisible algorithms, how do we rebuild a digital world where «free» doesn’t mean «surrendered»? In 2012, when I began to understand how potentially dangerous Google was – that in more than one respect, we paid for the company’s apparently free services with our freedom – I grew increasingly reluctant to communicate with people through Gmail, Google’s surveillance email system. First introduced in 2004, Gmail is now the most widely used email system in the world, with approximately two billion users; it is…Open
