April 14, 2004

Democratic Sen. Liz Figueroa of Fremont is drafting a bill asking Google to reconsider the e-mail service, in which users' incoming e-mail would be scanned for possible targeted advertising.

Senator Figueroa wants Google to abandon its proposed free e-mail service, calling Gmail an invasion of privacy.

For example, if an e-mail message mentioned a medical condition, then Google's software would display ads for specific medical products.

The advantage of Gmail is that it would provide lots of free storage for e-mail.

A British group, Privacy International, has complained about Gmail to the British information commissioner.

Google has said it will work with European authorities to address privacy and other concerns. The Mountain View, Calif.-based, company said users' e-mail would remain private because the process of scanning for key words would be entirely automated.

A Google news release said Gmail would offer each user storage capacity of up to 8 billion bits, or the equivalent of 500,000 pages of e-mail.

Source: Washington Times

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