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Originally Posted by AndyCambs
There's just no pleasing some people,
If you don't want to use email - then revert to pen and paper. At the moment, that't about the only thing that's not scanned by HM Govt.
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I'm not entirely sure what HM Govt have to do with concerns over Google keyword scanning mail sent to and from Virgin Media customers
Billy-Bob, ideally if things are confidential you should be encrypting them. There are several things that can accomplish this. The good news is that mail to Google's outsourced service is encrypted during transit over SSL / Secure Sockets Layer making it more secure in transit than standard email. If in addition you encrypt the mail yourself with one of the many programs available so that you have the Google encryption then your own inside they will not be able to keyword scan it.
I'll ask someone who works for Sky if Sky mail is keyword scanned however I am quite certain this is not the case. Google are receiving revenue directly from Sky and Virgin for the use of their Gmail platform and do not attach advertisements to outsourced mail, so to keyword scan it would be a waste of resource.
EDIT: Billy-Bob: as a general rule always consider email to be the equivalent of a postcard, not a letter inside an envelope. If you require an 'envelope' employ encryption.