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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6174411" data-attributes="member: 8835">Yup.&nbsp; This is one of the reason's it's a HIPAA violation to send patient info via email unless it is &quot;secure&quot; which means encryption, contracts, etc.For work, it's a completely dumb idea.For home, it's probably a little more complicated.&nbsp; I tell everybody I know to NEVER use the free email address from your internet provider.&nbsp; At the simplest because one day you will fire them, and now you've got drama with your friends to get them to switch to the new address.&nbsp; Plus, there's the technical hassles that they invariably don't connect to smartphones well, or have crappy web interfaces (or none at all), so now we have to port your email over when you change computers.From that position, using Hotmail or Gmail are the top leading free- email providers.&nbsp; Never use yahoo, they're a hacker-fest, and AOL is for Clydes.&nbsp; Gmail has the best support for mobile devices and other email clients (it supports IMAP, hotmail only does POP and POP sucks compared to IMAP for features).That pretty much means, everybody gets recommended to use Gmail.&nbsp; It works, until now, it was reasonably private and mostly secure.For normal people, I am pretty much guaranteed to be able to get them going with Gmail, get it working in an intelligent way with their smart phone (the mail stays on the server with IMAP) and even get it working with Outlook if they insist on using that.Everybody who insists on using something else runs into problems, so Gmail wins because it is stable, not obscure, and it just works.So the question is, what do &quot;normal&quot; people who aren't cheating on their spouse or plotting to overthrow the government have to fear from Google?And don't give us the &quot;slippery slope to erode our freedoms&quot; argument, as society tends to backlash on that before the &quot;horrible consequences&quot; ever get here.While I agree Google's statement is horribly stated and logically leads to &quot;Being Evil&quot;, let's look at where the rubber actually meets the road for a second.What could normal people be doing that this policy ACTUALLY causes a problem for?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Janx, post: 6174411, member: 8835"] Yup. This is one of the reason's it's a HIPAA violation to send patient info via email unless it is "secure" which means encryption, contracts, etc. For work, it's a completely dumb idea. For home, it's probably a little more complicated. I tell everybody I know to NEVER use the free email address from your internet provider. At the simplest because one day you will fire them, and now you've got drama with your friends to get them to switch to the new address. Plus, there's the technical hassles that they invariably don't connect to smartphones well, or have crappy web interfaces (or none at all), so now we have to port your email over when you change computers. From that position, using Hotmail or Gmail are the top leading free- email providers. Never use yahoo, they're a hacker-fest, and AOL is for Clydes. Gmail has the best support for mobile devices and other email clients (it supports IMAP, hotmail only does POP and POP sucks compared to IMAP for features). That pretty much means, everybody gets recommended to use Gmail. It works, until now, it was reasonably private and mostly secure. For normal people, I am pretty much guaranteed to be able to get them going with Gmail, get it working in an intelligent way with their smart phone (the mail stays on the server with IMAP) and even get it working with Outlook if they insist on using that. Everybody who insists on using something else runs into problems, so Gmail wins because it is stable, not obscure, and it just works. So the question is, what do "normal" people who aren't cheating on their spouse or plotting to overthrow the government have to fear from Google? And don't give us the "slippery slope to erode our freedoms" argument, as society tends to backlash on that before the "horrible consequences" ever get here. While I agree Google's statement is horribly stated and logically leads to "Being Evil", let's look at where the rubber actually meets the road for a second. What could normal people be doing that this policy ACTUALLY causes a problem for? [/QUOTE]

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