Talk:Gmail/Archives/2008/March

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what does this mean?

Under the Criticism/Privacy section, there is a sentence: "However, since the sender relinquishes ownership to the recipient of the message and any content once sent, there is no applicability of consent." What does this mean? The sender doesn't relinquish ownership of copyright, and presumably only implicitly relinquishes the right to read this private message to the person it's sent to. This could be making an argument that the receiver is then giving the message to GMail machines, but then this argument should be made explicitly. It's often considered a violation of privacy to post an e-mail from someone publicly without asking their permission; but it's not generally considered a violation of privacy to use Mozilla Thunderbird's text-search to search amongst e-mails that have been sent to you and thence downloaded to your computer. The article shouldn't take sides (or at least it should cite someone who's done a detailed analysis like I'm suggesting). —Isaac Dupree^(talk) 15:17, 2 March 2008 (UTC)