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psl
TELUS Team Member
TELUS Team MemberGmail Migration - New Support Content
Hey everyone, as many of you have noticed, since last year, we’ve been migrating customers to the new TELUS email powered by Google. Providing new benefits, such as:
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I haven't used Telus for email for over a decade, ever since you stopped handling it yourselves and outsourced it to some pathetically incompetent 3rd party.
I currently use Gmail for my personal email, but I'm far from happy with it.
So, if I decide to activate a Telus/Google account:
- Will Google still be rummaging through my emails looking for data to add to their database? Your video claims that agreeing to Google's terms is "just a technicality", but I understand enough law to seriously doubt that statement.
- Will I still be subject to Google's truly annoying security algorithms that lock you out of your account if *they* decide your activity is suspicious? And send security "warnings" every time your IP address changes (hello, DHCP????)
- Will I be required to give them my phone number? I know you said "No" previously, but later posts suggest that this is not the case.
- Will you offer some kind of 2FA that *doesn't* rely on using text messaging which is useless in places with no/poor cell coverage (depressingly common in Canada) and is *known* to be easily spoofed? Something like Yubikey, for instance?
- Will Google still be rummaging through my emails .............
Yes.
- Will I still be subject to Google's truly annoying security algorithms that lock you out of your account if *they* decide your activity is suspicious? And send security "warnings" every time your IP address changes (hello, DHCP????)
Login is through them so probably, but others can correct this.
- Will I be required to give them my phone number? I know you said "No" previously, but later posts suggest that this is not the case.
No but they might keep asking ...... you know for your security!
