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  INVASION: Google Inc.'s free e-mail service: The company plans to read the messages...
Time: 16:29 EST/21:29 GMT | News Source: E-Mail | Posted By: Brian Kvalheim

Thanks Chris - Privacy advocates are concerned that there's one big flaw with Google Inc.'s free e-mail service: The company plans to read the messages. LA TIMES reporting on Friday: The Internet search firm insists that it needs to know what's in the e-mails that pass through its system -- so that they can be sprinkled with advertisements Google thinks are relevant. After all, revenue from those targeted ads will pay for the Gmail service, which began a limited test Thursday, offering up to 500 times as much e-mail storage as competing Web e-mail programs from Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

The TIMES adds: The electronic letters won't be read by Google employees; computers will handle that chore. Nonetheless, the spector of seeing an ad for an antacid beside a message from a friend complaining about stomach pain is enough to make some people nervous about the e-mail service.

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