California Senate votes to restrict Google's Gmail - May. 27, 2004
California Senate votes to restrict Google's GmailI have to admit I am surprised this thing passed. I don't know what juridiction they have over an a world wide internet service. I don't understand who they are trying to protect from Gmail. People that don't want it don't have to sign up. I also don't understand why gmail is more privacy invasion than any other service. Anyone who runs an email service can see their users account and activities. The Bill was passed by a 28-3 Margin. I assume it will have to get approved by a House vote. I also assume that a bill passing the Senate by a 3 to one margin should be able to get through the rest of the legilative process. If it ever goes to court though, this bill should be made history. It's California. Anything can happen.
The bill by Democratic state Sen. Liz Figueroa would require Gmail to work only in real-time and would bar the service from producing records.
The bill also would bar Gmail form collecting personal information from e-mails and giving any information to third parties.
In the end I don't think the bill will effect the Google will run Gmail, because as I understand their claims, Google has promised to run Gmail pretty much just the way the bill specifies. Its not clear though that Calfornia has any right to regulate them.
posted by Liberty @ 7:41 PM
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I'm not surprised it passed in CA or what I call the Socialist Republic of California. This is exactly what happens when our state senators have too much time in their hands. It also doesn't help that probably most of the state senators who passed this law doesn't know what it's about, how it works and that all free email service does the same thing. Ignorant waste of taxpayers money if only they devoted the time to pass this to pass our budget instead. I HATE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE and ALL THE LEFT EXTREMIST WHO LIVES IN THIS STATE
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