Test Shows Google & Facebook Read Your Messages

[Fantastic Anarchist]

Internet security company High-Tech Bridge conducted a test to find out if Internet companies are spying on your private messages and their results seem to indicate that they are.

They sent private messages via services like Google, Facebook and Twitter that included a special internet address, created just for the test. Then they sat back and waited to see if those companies clicked on that link.

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Read more at WorldStart

[DetlefK]

1. Was already posted here on DU... and debunked.

Two IT-guys in the thread said that built-in virus-scanners in E-Mail-servers also check links.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

2. Ahh, thanks for the correction.

Didn't even think about that.

[KurtNYC]

3. Google has acknowledged this practice in court, defiantly:

In court records filed in advance of a federal hearing scheduled for Thursday in San Jose, Google argues that "all users of email must necessarily expect that their emails will be subject to automated processing."

The class action lawsuit, filed in May, says Google "unlawfully opens up, reads, and acquires the content of people's private email messages" in violation of California's privacy laws and federal wiretapping statutes. The lawsuit notes that the company even scans messages sent to any of the 425 million active Gmail users from non-Gmail users who never agreed to the company's terms.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/05/gmail-ads-email-scanning_n_3871246.html

[Fantastic Anarchist]

4. Very interesting ...

... thanks for the information.

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. Test or not . . .

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our privacy is gone on the internets.

Maybe we never had any.

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[G_j]

6. k