So at WebDD I had a thought… Apparently the government is now tracking and logging every email sent.. this is both alarming and disturbing (add this to the fact that the EU is trying to implement a tiered Internet (http://www.blackouteurope.eu/).
It does however have a side effect…With the freedom of information act, couldn’t we get our emails back? therefore letting the government be a secondary backup solution?
Gmail (Gov Mail) can store UNLIMITED emails for up to 50 years, all you need to get it back is a strongly worded letter!
Although add that to the fact that they are supposedly tracking every website I visit, does that mean heather can see just how many times a day I actually visit reddit (that would be funnier if I put the name of a popular porn site in there but I have no idea what a popular porn site would be as I never visit sites like that!…honest…)
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Interesting… How long will it be before your collection of emails detailing seo exploits, Twitter confirmations and porn trackers gets left on a train? Or a bus? WHAT THEN DOM?
Just a point of note, they don’t store the content of your e-mails, just the details of where it was sent from, and who it was sent to.
I smell a fish.
Are there viable storage solutions in real life that don’t rely on sekrit technology ?
Factor in that this is the same .gov.uk that have botched most-if-not-all of their IT projects to date.
Could it not be so much hot air ?
Quite how they’ll police that when I use GMail, and most of the people I email are on GMail, and Google is a US company. Plus GMail uses SSL to encrypt all the traffic and can use Secure Sockets even over IMAP/POP and SMTP.
Can’t see it working myself. They’ll just end up tracking the general populous when criminal types will find a more secure way of sending messages.
I have been trying to find any concrete information on Gmail’s status with the UK law but I can’t.
As the act applies to ISPs though presumably if your e-mail is received by a UK based ISP it will be kept, and maybe then if it is relayed by a UK based server as well?
Actually, it just occurred to me that they are actually tracking delivery of newsletters are well. So they will know if you have subscribed to a Conservative party newsletter should they choose to look at the data.
@stuart THEN WE PANIC
@Rob thanks.. I decided to miss that bit of information for a shocking headline
@barney you could always just rsync to an s3 bucket using a time machine and drobo
@Subether and @Andrew Gmail is Google Mail in the UK and Google has a registered UK office so if the Gov made this law then wouldnt google have to give up the data?
I thought that might be the case but I don’t know. I am considering writing a simple script that I can host on a US server that searches the body of my e-mails for an address and sends it on with an anonymous sender so I can redirect my e-mails without them being tracked further than my script.
i hear hodgesex.com is getting an ever increasing number of hits….