Google Lawyers Admit To gmail Privacy Leak

jmke · 28th July 2006, 10:05

So, as can be expected, lots of these advertisers have Gmail accounts. And what did Google do? It checked them. Google algorithmically peaked at all the accounts on the list their agent had developed which they had access to, to see if the mail was marked spam or not. There were 75,000 accounts in which it was marked spam, and an unknown (larger) amount of accounts must have been compromised to get that statistic.

28th July 2006, 10:29

Is that why there was so much spam lately?

28th July 2006, 10:05	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,019	Google Lawyers Admit To gmail Privacy Leak So, as can be expected, lots of these advertisers have Gmail accounts. And what did Google do? It checked them. Google algorithmically peaked at all the accounts on the list their agent had developed which they had access to, to see if the mail was marked spam or not. There were 75,000 accounts in which it was marked spam, and an unknown (larger) amount of accounts must have been compromised to get that statistic. __________________

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Rutar Posts: n/a	Is that why there was so much spam lately?