Gmail’s message

Michael Fitzgerald asks whether we are prepared to surrender more privacy for the sake of convenience?

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Over the past decade or so, the notion of privacy has become almost quaint. It now seems odd that people might get worked up over the privacy-pinching potential of some new e-mail program. After all, figures from Bill Clinton to Bill Gates have been embarrassed and diminished by e-mail trails. How much worse can it get?

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