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Our email is forced to Google - despite their privacy violations & aiding police state dictators?
So where is Telus' social license after they've decided to obligate all of us, without choice, to use Google as we use our email? Telus isn't aware of Google's decade long history of repeatedly b...
FuzzyLogic
Community Power User
Community Power UserFWIW I share many of your concerns regarding Google.
I can only speculate why Telus opted to go to Gmail. I do know they had a major outage a while back and that may have been the impetus to change. I don't think email is core to what Telus does (a communications company) and likely decided to spin this off.
Here is an interesting link from Ryerson addressing their considerations when they migrated to Gmail. Skip to the section on "Objections to Google" to see why they still went with Google:
Email & Collaboration Tools Consultation | Ryerson Community Consultation
"While people strongly object to using Google the committee has not found a factual basis for these objections."
I think they are talking about security against 3rd party.
The point is that Google collect information, personal data, and someone us don't think they use this to our advantage.
This point is ignored.
I have been using gmail since it started. I have gmail address that is 5 letters and a simple word.
I like the GUI and the filterning.
Unfortunately I also saw all the changes it's gone though from being just an email service provider, to commercial enterprise which bate/forces the changes it needs to make money. Such as collecting information.
I don't care if they know I like to play a certain game or buy a contain food.
They should not ask for my birthday, my phone number. Too many identity theft out there.
They should not collect who my family/friends are and create such profile about us that can be used in many ways in the future I may not want it to and I have no control over it at all.
All the same for FB of cause.
