On 19/07/2018 15:57, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > <rant> > As far as google anything goes, not everybody volunteers one's > information into paws of google (and quite likely one or more of 3 > letter agencies collecting information that way). I know (call it > educated guess) that about 70% of messages I send are ending up in > google databases whether I want it or not. Someone said quite some > time ago: you don't need to recruit spies anymore, just roll out > "free" services, and information will trickle to you. I am old enough > to know what collection of information on everybody leads to (Hitler > Germany, Stalin Russia, ...), but I also know that the worst lesson of > history is: people do not learn lessons of history. So, I do the best > I can do: roll out services people I work for may need, and avoid by > any means advertising google whatever myself, I just keep neutral when > that surfaces in discussions with my people. > </rant> Well said. I feel that too many people today have forgotten (or, more likely, never learned) these lessons from history. People give away their personal and supposedly private information too easily and, I feel certain, will come to regret it (some already have come to regret it). -- Mark Rousell