manchmal sollte ich mir mehr Mühe mit diesen Tipps geben. Das Problem war mir -äh- bekannt.
Wozu nutze ich meine Webaccounts - nicht für Persönliches! Dank gmail verkleben die Newsletter (wie von AI, ICG..) nicht mehr meinen eigentlichen Internetaccount (bei t-online) und belasten meine Festplatte. Die Suchfunktion ist komfortabel und alles schön automatisiert & ich brauche nur selten meine eigentliche Emailadresse hinterlassen. That's all. Aber ok, ich hätte darauf hinweisen sollen. Zerknirscht...

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This is for your copy-and-paste convenience. Any e-mail I receive from @gmail.com is responded to automatically with this message:

Dear Gmail user:
This message is automatically generated.

As you may know, e-mail from or to gmail.com is not private, but is data-mined to provide advertising income for Google. The commercialization of private correspondence, and the breach of privacy, should be resisted. Therefore:

1) I encourage you to cancel your GMail account.
2) Please do not write me from gmail.com. I do not reply to e-mail from gmail.com except for this message.
3) Please use another e-mail provider so that our correspondence may be private and not subject to commercialization.
For more information, please visit www.google-watch.org/gmail.html

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Warum?
0 Die Einladungsstruktur dh
Soziogramme die mit Klarnamen verknüpfbar sind
-> wer kennt wen mit welchen Interessen inner circle/harter Kern ...

1 Gmail violates the privacy rights of non-subscribers.
Non-subscribers who e-mail a Gmail user have "content extraction" performed on their e-mail even though they have not consented to have their communications monitored, nor may they even be aware that their communications are being analyzed.

2 Unsterbliches Gmail /Profiling
Kritisiert wird u.a., dass Google Kopien der E-Mails selbst dann weiter speichern wird, wenn der Nutzer die Nachrichten oder gar den gesamten Account gelöscht hat. Zudem will Google über Cookies erfasste persönliche Daten aus der "Gmail"-Registrierung mit eingetippten Suchanfragen verknüpfen und so eine Sammlung persönlicher Daten zu den einzelnen Nutzern anlegen. Google has never been known to delete any of the data they've collected, since day one. For example, their cookie with the unique ID in it, which expires in 2038 (lebe ich dann noch?), has been tracking all of the search terms you've ever used while searching their main index. Diagrams that show social networks of people who are inclined toward certain thoughts could be generated. This is one form of "data mining," which is very lucrative now for high-tech firms, such as Google, that contract with federal agencies.

3 Gmail advertising concept
When you log into the Gmail to retrieve and view your email, the service automatically scans the contents of the email and displays a relevant ad on the screen for you to see. Now, there is a market for the content of your mail. If I write you at your GMail account, I know that what I write will be data mined, and the content used to contact advertisers whose ads will be displayed along with my letter to you.

I can't simply write to you. I have to think about the ads that my words will trigger, and whether I want these particular ads to appear. The marketplace has dissolved another barrier to its expansion. Or it is trying to. Whether it will succeed in breaking into the sanctuary of private communication depends on the character of the people — whether we acquiesce or whether we resist.

4 Google's language means that all Gmail account holders have consented to allow Google to show any and all email in their Gmail accounts to any official from any government whatsoever, even when the request is informal or extralegal, at Google's sole discretion.
Why should we send email to Gmail accounts under such draconian conditions?

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Was tun?

1a) Ich verweigere den Empfang von e-mails von @gmail.com addressen (s.o)
1b) und Sende sonst keine e-mails an @gmail.com addressen
2 Ich suche nicht über Google, habe den ewigen Cookie gelöscht
3 Ich suche nie dort, wo ich einen Mailaccount habe sondern zB über Clusty
4 Ich habe verschiedene Mailadressen
für Mails von Menschen / Newsletter/ potentiellen Spam.
Bis die vollaufen braucht's einiges.
5 Ich lösch auch Newsletter/pdf's bzw brenn auf CD
6 Sign up with a different large capacity webmail provider
Several other services which offer large storage capabilities without the privacy violations: Rediffmail, Walla & Spymac (all 1GB + no content extraction)
or Aventure-mail (2GB + no content extraction)
This solution is fine for now, but the larger risk is what happens when all the large-scale providers of e-mail start employing Gmail-like e-mail scanning and extraction practices.