California Senator Moves Forward With Plan To Ban Gmail
from the wonderful dept
Following up on already announced intentions (and apparently ignoring everyone who explained why this is a terrible, terrible idea), California Senator Liz Figueroa has introduced a bill to ban Gmail saying that - even though Google is upfront about scanning emails to offer contextual advertising and it's a choice of the user - it should be illegal. Her complaint is that Google will use email contents as a "direct marketing opportunity." I hadn't realized that there was anything illegal about direct marketing. If we're going to go after direct marketers there are an awful lot of direct marketing practices that I would target before a perfectly useful, perfectly upfront company's email client.
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jeez
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The question is 'Who's paying her to try and stop
Who knows?
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Clueless
Hell, why not pass a law that requires email senders to be made aware of the applications & services used by the recipient, so they can opt out of sending their email if they don't like them?
If she wants to use her 15 minutes of fame, she should pick a better issue.
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Re: Clueless
In addition, Google is offering GMail now to Blogger Plus users. So far I like it a lot.
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Senator Figueroa & Gmail
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ddd
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