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January 2, 2015

December 2014: The month in email

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02January

2014 has been a busy and exciting year at Word to the Wise (look for more on that in a year-end wrap-up post next week!) and this month was particularly thrilling for us as we officially doubled our size with the addition of Josh and Meri on our client services team. If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you’ve probably spotted Josh’s byline on a few posts: Google’s Inbox Team answers questions...

January 16, 2014

Transcript of Google hearing

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16January

I’ve not had a chance to read it, yet, but the transcript of the September hearing for the wiretapping case against Google is available. (pdf download)

September 30, 2013

This month in email: September 2013

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30September

Looking back through the month of September there were a couple things talked about on the blog. Legal cases discussed I wrote quite a bit about the Google wiretapping case. In this potential class action suit, a number of plaintiffs are suing Google for intercepting emails in violation of the federal wiretapping statutes and state wiretapping laws. On September 5th I attended a hearing on...

September 27, 2013

Google wiretapping case, what the judge ruled

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27September

Yesterday I reported that the judge had ruled on Google’s motion to dismiss. Today I’ll take a little bit deeper look at the case and the interesting things that were in denial of the motion to dismiss. Google is being sued for violations of federal wiretapping laws, the California invasion of privacy act (CIPA) and wiretapping laws in Florida, Pennsylvania and Maryland. This lawsuit...

September 26, 2013

Judge sides with plaintiff, refuses to dismiss wiretapping suit against Google

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26September

Judge Koh published her ruling on Google’s motion to dismiss today. It’s a 43 page ruling, which I’m still digesting. But the short answer is that Google’s motion was denied almost in total. Google’s motion was granted for two of the claims: that email is confidential as defined by the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA, section 632) and dismissal of a claim...

September 9, 2013

Questions on Google lawsuit post

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09September

A couple questions in the previous discussion thread about the Google privacy case. Both concern permission granted to Google to scan emails. Google’s stance about this is fairly simple. Gmail users give explicit permission for their mail to be scanned. People who send mail to Gmail users give implicit permission for their mail to be scanned. The plaintiff’s lawyers are alleging that...

September 6, 2013

No expectation of privacy, says Google

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06September

I spent yesterday afternoon in Judge Koh’s courtroom listening to arguments on whether or not the class action suit against Google based on their scanning of emails for advertising purposes can go forward. This is the case that made news a few weeks ago because Google stated in their brief that users have “no expectation of privacy” in using online services. That does appear to...

November 8, 2012

Is Google failing DKIM keys shorter than 512 bits?

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08November

Today’s Wednesday question comes from Andrew B. and got pushed to Thursday so I could check a few more facts. Have @Gmail yet confirmed the @ReturnPath story that they’ll start failing weak DKIM sigs? RP cites no source:   @hey4ndr3w The answer is that no one from Gmail has publicly confirmed that they’re failing to authenticate mail signed with weak DKIM keys. But conversations...

December 14, 2011

Email marketing OF THE FUTURE!

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14December

ISPs are continually developing tools for their users. Some of the newer tools are automatic filters that help users organize the volumes of mail they’re getting. Gmail released Priority Inbox over a year ago. Hotmail announced new filters as part of Wave 5 back in October. All of these announcements cause much consternation in the email marketing industry. Just today there was a long...

October 4, 2011

Spammers and Google+

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04October

I have a google+ account, but don’t check it very often. There seems to be a significant amount of noise on the feeds and trying to keep up with all the people who added me to circles was driving all the real mail out of my gmail inbox. This morning I realized the noise just got louder. It seems spammers are buying very, very old lists scraped from usenet and inviting everyone on those...