Why should Google read our personal messages?
@allknowing (137769)
India
January 28, 2024 10:48pm CST
Google reads our personal messages exchanged in Gmail. They will categorise them. They will even send reminders if a mail is not read or attended to.
I find this odd and I wonder if there is a way we can stop them from snooping around Is there a human being that reads our messages? Now with AI I wonder what else they will do.
Are you comfortable with this?
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10 responses
@2ndchances24 (9290)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
29 Jan
I have gmail myself along with millions of others
& NO I'm not happy about it, but there SHOULD
be a way of SOME sort to fix the problem but I
couldn't tell you, unless you go on you tube to
see if you could find it there, other wise I d K.
I guess you COULD go to duck duck go & make
a email on their site, cause that's what I have for
all my sites & it's pretty good & easy to work with.
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@allknowing (137769)
• India
29 Jan
@May2k8 I have solved it If you read through the posts here you will see the solution
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@Fleura (30541)
• United Kingdom
29 Jan
It is always said that email is about as private as sending a postcard, i.e. not really private at all. I'm not that surprised really, and I don't know if it can be stopped. If you want something to be really private, send an old-fashioned letter! (and then ask the recipient to burn it after reading).
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@allknowing (137769)
• India
29 Jan
@Fleura I suppose we need to trust technology
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@Fleura (30541)
• United Kingdom
29 Jan
@allknowing Well what I mean is yes we can 'make changes' by selecting certain things on our screens in settings or wherever, but how do we know that those actions really actually change anything in reality? Surely it would be easy to create a little box that people could check to say they wanted to opt out, but it could be just that - a little box on the screen.
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@Beestring (14693)
• Hong Kong
29 Jan
I wonder how they did it. There are so many Gmail messages. Cannot be done by human beings.
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@allknowing (137769)
• India
29 Jan
I have sorted it out now If you read through here you will see my comment
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@allknowing (137769)
• India
29 Jan
@RebeccasFarm If you could just look at posts here I have made a comment giving details
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@RebeccasFarm (90474)
• Arvada, Colorado
29 Jan
@allknowing Did you? Where did you do this, please explain.
@allknowing (137769)
• India
29 Jan
There is a way out - I just found out You need to go to your settings and disable that which allows them to do that
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@allknowing (137769)
• India
29 Jan
You could be right there but when you are told you need to respond to a mail that was received days ago makes one wonder though Anyway there is a way out. You just need to go to your settings and disable that which allows them this freedom.