So now google is no longer my friend?

[xtrasyn]

Yesterday at a dinnerparty I was frowned upon for still using google and gmail. I seem to be under heavy influence from the CIA or something now. They advised me to stop using it.

Now I want to know more on this but obviously I would be stupid to use google for this.

Tell me, is it true?

[SilverSmoke]

I used to have a family in law like that

[Quazi Starbucks]

tell them that you are not coming round any more, and from now on you are going round google's house

LOL GOOGLE SELLS YOUR DATA LOL

[Androme]

I made a thread on the privacy issue surrounding gmail - search this forum for that side.

[Leshy]

Basically Google has the ability to archive all of your emails, search queries and browsing patterns through GoogleAds, thereby being able to profile you individually if they would want to do so. It is very shady what they do with this information - basically you have to trust their word for it that they won't do anything with it, but there is no legal obligation for them to keep the information private.

As if the information Google gathers is somehow more incriminating than whatever half of the US Government agencies probably already have gathered about you, or are able to do so.

[JammyJim]

United States-TEMPEST
Reports have indicated the existence of another NSA project that is designed to capture computer signals (such as keystrokes or monitor images) through walls or from other buildings, even if the computers are not linked to a network. Details about this project, which is apparently codenamed TEMPEST, are only just becoming available. One NSA document, entitled "Compromising Emanations Laboratory Test Requirements, Electromagnetics", was prepared by the NSA's Telecommunications and Information Systems Security group. It describes test procedures for measuring the radiation emitted from a computer -- both through radio waves and through telephone, serial, network, or power cables attached to it. A second document the NSA released describes the agency's "Technical Security Program," which is responsible for assessing electronic security and providing "technical security facility countermeasures." Two subsequent research articles how the blinking patterns of LEDs and changes in the light intensity of cathode-ray tube displays, even from a distance, can allow someone to eavesdrop on the data passing through a given computer.


http://www.echelonwatch.org/

[mist]

wern't they doing something like tempest as far back as the 2nd world war? iirc, the keyboards on teletype machines were quite (electrically) noisy?

-mist