[imp] "big three" webmail providers courting campus

[Joseph Brennan]

Liam Hoekenga <liamr at deathstar.org> wrote:

> One of my coworkers pointed out today that Google had placed an ad in
> our student newspaper asking people to take a survey,


And the students don't ask themselves how Google makes money from this?
Maybe the expectation of online privacy is now an antique notion.  Maybe
the idea of Google using their email content to "target" them (ouch) to
advertisers no longer raises issues.  Kids have been dealing with this
abusive behavior for so long that maybe colleges should be publicizing
what we think is obvious-- that we don't data-mine their mail or track
where they go on the web.

Joseph Brennan
Columbia University Information Technology