Is Gmail Wiretapping? Federal Court Considers How Internet Companies Can Read Our Email

If you had learned in 1980 that the Postal Service was opening your letters (postage cost 15 cents) and skimming them for keywords in order to send you more relevant advertising flyers, you probably would have blown a gasket. And yet, come 2004, you may have been among the flood of users who eagerly signed up for Google's new email service, where all of your missives would be read by a computer in order to show you targeted online advertising. Are the two situations similar? That is what a North...