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Re: Gmail confidential mode

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Post by nukeop »

ktpsns wrote: post #2

> removing options for recipients to forward, copy, print, and download Oh please... Everybody can do a screenshot nowadays, and even Google itself integrated OCR into its Screenshot tool at Android a few years ago. What a waste of time to make the life of people harder who must use this "security" feature!

The day this comes out I hope there will be a browser extension that automatically strips the retarded DRM by copying the html from the "viewer" website and replies to the original sender with the contents, so that a "cracked" copy of the email is saved in both the sender's and recipient's history as it should have been in the first place.

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Post by bachmeier »

It's not clear what the use case is for something like this. Why wouldn't you use an alternative communications channel like Slack in this situation? I mean, if you don't want to use email, don't use email. Why go through all the complications this introduces.

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Post by sverige »

Jabbles wrote: post #35
sverige wrote: post #18

The title made me think Google was announcing that they won't read my email any more. Alas.

Define "read" - you obviously don't mean "process" because that wouldn't make any sense. So you must be talking about something more specific?

It depends on what you mean by "process."

https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-gmail-ads-email...

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Post by mc32 »

prima-facie wrote: post #36

This has the potential to create a huge legal headache. We can no longer rely on email to be there in our archive and presented as evidence in court, but now have to worry about expiry. In many countries an exchange of emails which represents a series of terms, restrictions, an offer, and finally acceptance can be considered a legally binding contract between parties and can be presented in court. With expiry and ema…

If it’s from your org, vault keeps the records, if it’s from personal or outside gmail accounts those vaults should retain records. A court order could compel the other party to provide records.

Of course this adds a complication but it’s not completely deleting the records everywhere.

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Post by krageon »

prima-facie wrote: post #39
krageon wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this situation not the same as verbally binding legal contracts? What you need is to record your expiring messages otherwise it'll just devolve into a they said, they said in the courtroom.

It's not the same. In business Email is established as a written form of agreement.

This isn't email, so I don't see how that is applicable.

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Post by tgragnato »

incompatible wrote: post #26
Zarel wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I were implementing something like this, it would just be a link to an auto-expiring viewer page, if you opened the email in a third-party email client. And according to Google, that's exactly how it's implemented: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7674059 "Malicious programs" here most likely refers to things like keyloggers.

You aren't really sending email any more, just a link to a website.

Does this mean that I only need a new reject rule in my spam filter?

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Post by Y_Y »

reustle wrote: post #19
ktpsns wrote: post #2

> removing options for recipients to forward, copy, print, and download Oh please... Everybody can do a screenshot nowadays, and even Google itself integrated OCR into its Screenshot tool at Android a few years ago. What a waste of time to make the life of people harder who must use this "security" feature!

The Airbnb app prevents screenshots on certain pages on the OS level on Android, I'm sure the Gmail app will do the same.

Netflix does the same. If I owned my device I suppose I'd be the one to make decision about when I can screenshot and can't.
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