[What a wonderful way to attract businesses to California! Now perhaps the honorable Liz Figueroa will receive a "defender of privacy" award from some of her pro-regulatory fans. --Declan] http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5190219.html California legislator moves to block Gmail Last modified: April 12, 2004, 4:05 PM PDT By Reuters A California state senator said Monday she was drafting legislation to block Google's free e-mail service "Gmail" because it would place advertising in personal messages after searching them for key words. "We think it's an absolute invasion of privacy. It's like having a massive billboard in the middle of your home," said Sen. Liz Figueroa, a Democrat from Fremont, Calif. "We are asking them to rethink the whole product," she said. [...] Figueroa, who was the author of California's do-not-call law that allows citizens to block telemarketing calls, said she was pursuing the legislation because she had not yet received a response to a letter sent Thursday to Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, in which she laid out her concerns. [...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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