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Badly: http://blog.movableink.com/gmails-recent-image-handling-chan...
To clarify, it's bad for marketing people, but good for users desiring privacy.
I hate to be "that guy", but does this mean Google is storing every one of our pics on their proxy servers? For how long do they store them, and what is their data retention policy? Also, remembering that Google has no obligation to protect non-American users, does that give the NSA access to them, to run things like facial recognition, etc?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
To clarify, it's bad for marketing people, but good for users desiring privacy.
To an extent - it seems that google indirectly confirms that emails are received (even though additional data is lost).
This is a step in the right direction. However, please understand that it doesn't really make a difference in forms of real privacy Googlers! The e-mail spam/list creators are a different kind of adversary than, for example, web trackers. They will do something like this: http www theirimageserver com/images/img53.jpg?to=you@email.com (Obviously they will obfuscate and use some kind of hash instead of cleartext e-mai…
Or are these images pre-cached when mail is delivered (so that the fact that an image was loaded is just proof of delivery, which you should be able to get anyway?)
This is a step in the right direction. However, please understand that it doesn't really make a difference in forms of real privacy Googlers! The e-mail spam/list creators are a different kind of adversary than, for example, web trackers. They will do something like this: http www theirimageserver com/images/img53.jpg?to=you@email.com (Obviously they will obfuscate and use some kind of hash instead of cleartext e-mai…
This is a step in the right direction. However, please understand that it doesn't really make a difference in forms of real privacy Googlers! The e-mail spam/list creators are a different kind of adversary than, for example, web trackers. They will do something like this: http www theirimageserver com/images/img53.jpg?to=you@email.com (Obviously they will obfuscate and use some kind of hash instead of cleartext e-mai…