Gmail - What's the big deal?
Everybody appears to be very upset about Google’s new Gmail service because it analyzes the user’s emails in order to deliver targeted ads. Yesterday, California’s Senate passed a bill that restricts Gmail by requiring it to perform all analysis in real time, i.e. without storing any information, among other things. Personally, I don’t see what the big deal is. Last I heard, this was a free country, and nobody is forced to use Google’s Gmail service....