[obituary_latte]

If nothing else, it reminds people that it's going on. Which is a good thing. Myself, with adblockXYZ installed, often forget or don't notice. And when these do come up, I'm grateful because it reminds me to stop being a lazy bastard and set up an email server (as I've done many times for others) for myself. I appreciate that.

[magicalist]

I guess. There are plenty of other people in this thread who have brought up the fact that if your email service can read your email you are inherently vulnerable without quoting the plaintiff's attorney in a suit about the practice talking to ABC news. Talk about your lowest common denominator.

I didn't come here to be propogandized at, so, yes, I will object to the dumbing down of debate to appeals to emotion (especially on a subject that's obviously already so emotionally charged).

[001sky]

magicalist: It was a widely reported national headline because it came from AP. It was not a story by some perma-tanned fake news-anchor. Alternative sources, same headline. This is also very much a PR war, on both side (google, NSA, etc). In case you haven't also icked that up. Everyone is in the business of manufacturing headlines.

http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2013/09/google_argues...

http://news.yahoo.com/google-argues-continue-scanning-gmail-...

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/google-argues-right-continue...

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_24021944/google-argue...

[obituary_latte]

Ok. Maybe you came to the wrong place then. Or maybe your perspective is off... Who could know such things?