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Has there been anyone working to make a comprehensive locally-hostable webmail/weboffice suite that replicates Google's functionality? I can imagine that this would be quite poular. Sure, some of the features like Priority Inbox might require complex heuristics, but things like labels should be easy to add support for.
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> Which is a shame because I think it's pretty clear the OP is actually asking about Google employees reading your email Unless you run your own smtp and pop/imap mail servers, there is no way to be sure no one will read your emails. Even then, your servers could get hacked or maybe your contacts use a hosted solution (and most people do) that could get hacked, there is again no guaranty. The only work around is to f…
Unless you run your own smtp and pop/imap mail servers, there is no way to be sure no one will read your emails. I think you really want to encrypt your email for that kind of peace of mind. Of course you need buy in from your contacts.
"Folks: The problem with Google promising to hold “personal information” confidential is that a document may not meet the definition of “personal information” given in http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/faq.html#toc-terms-per... . For example, if you write down some ideas for a new product and keep it as a Google Doc there may be nothing in the document that identifies you as the author and therefore it might be okay for Google to read or distribute the document.
Generally speaking the Google privacy docs address a separate issue from the question of keeping email or documents confidential. They are about the question of whether your identify is kept confidential when you’re browsing around the Web and Google is figuring out what your interests and demographics are. Worthy stuff to be writing about, no doubt, but it doesn’t shed much light on the subject of whether a Google employee can copy and paste paragraphs from your email messages or Google docs."
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2011/11/03/where-does-goo...
It's the warrantless backdoors installed for most government entities.
What you think is harmless to discuss is probably being auto-indexed by them to use against you if you ever become a "problem" (ie. protest war, etc.)
That's exactly what I do on my system anyway. I host my own email as well though: https://grepular.com/Automatically_Encrypting_all_Incoming_E...
A most relevant question would be: Does Google match the profiles of its mail users to high profile people, such as company managers or other rich people who can be easily found on, for example, Linkedin? If so, does Google automatically filter their email in order to predict, for example, the stock market?
I am more concerned about Google making an arbitrary decision to delete my Gmail account.