U.K. privacy group wary of Google's Web mail

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Here's why

I guess they're using their big filing system, the same one they use for Google itself:

http://www.cs.rochester.edu/sosp2003/papers/p125-ghemawat.pdf

It has the advantage that its fast but disadvantage that its designed to mostly appends new data rather than overwrites.

"Government-backed privacy agencies in Sweden and Germany, however, have blocked commercial services because personal information required in order to sign up would be stored on U.S.-based computers. "

No, they would block it because US refuses to implement privacy laws and EU rules say they can only allow information on EU citizens to be held in countries that respect privacy. Sweden and Germany echos this.

If US hadn't blocked a privacy law, there wouldn't be a problem.

Posted by: Nigel Johnstone   Posted on: 04/05/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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