[kictanet] Privacy and Email Providers

[Crystal Watley Kigoni]

I never said anything Bad about you except how beautiful of a person you R
:) did I?

On 13 Nov 2017 9:11 a.m., "ken Otieno Ogera via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> I think, Artificial intelligence & deep learning techniques try to “help”
> the user make decisions that are considered business friendly in many ways
> from time to bandwidth and not necessarily deep packet inspection of the
> content.
> If for instance Google  picked data globally(and here I don’t mean
> geographic spread but high level metadata) on specific signed emails that
> are sent several times with same subject on instance 1 then on instance 2
> with an attachment, the system should know that users are forgetting to
> include attachments. Two instances indicates a  loss of business time and
> reuse of bandwidth for an event that should have been done only once ;so
> why not remind user to make it right in instance one.
> Regards
> Ken Otieno Ogera
>
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 at 23:05, Francis Gesora via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Don't know if this makes sense, but if you try sending an email on gmail,
>> with the word "attached" in your email body, gmail will always hold on
>> sending and propose that you consider whether you want to attach a file.
>> This seems a bit unsettling, does this mean email providers actually peruse
>> the content of the emails prior / during sending?
>>
>> I know we agree to terms, but doesn't it go against privacy policies?
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Francis Gesora.
>>
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> for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and
> regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT
> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development.
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> online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth,
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