Privacy advocates are continuing to make a stink about the new Gmail service, according to MSNBC. A group of 28
advocacy organizations asked Google yesterday to suspend its plans for reading the text of email messages.
Additionally, a firm in Europe has asked several governments to check into possible privacy violations.
"Google's proposed Gmail service and the practices and policies of its business units raise
significant and troubling questions," the group said in a letter addressed to Google executives and released to the
press. "The scanning of confidential email violates the implicit trust of an email service provider. ... and
establishes reduced expectations of privacy in email communications. These precedents may be adopted by other companies
and governments and may persist long after Google is gone."
