[DG: Open Forum] [Building Sakai] New Email Address

[David Adams]

Good for him for making a statement, but other than switching all
communications over to Tor or something, there's really nothing practical
that can be done to avoid being surveilled by the US government, or the UK
government. University IT departments are not immune to such requests for
data dumps either. And don't think you'll get confirmation that it's going
on.


On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Jim Eng <jimeng at umich.edu> wrote:

> All three emails responding to Adrian's so far were handled by Google, for
> what it's worth.
>
> I take Adrian's stance to be a statement, rather than a personal solution
> to the problem.  It would be nice to have solutions, but sometimes the best
> we can do is make a statement.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Jun 13, 2013, at 8:08 PM, David Adams <daveadams at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Has fastmail made some statement about its refusal to cooperate with such
> data collection or has it just not been mentioned because it's not a big
> player? In any case, most international Internet traffic is closely
> monitored by the US government as well, it would seem. So while some of
> your user metadata may be safer in fastmail, the contents of your email
> messages are probably just as accessible to the same folks, for whatever
> it's worth. And with this email they now know what fastmail address to
> correlate with your Google account.
>
> Just sayin... :)
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Jim Eng <jimeng at umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>>
>> On Jun 11, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Adrian Fish <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Sakaiers,
>>
>> Just a quick note to say that I'm using a new email address,
>> adrianfish at fastmail.fm, in addition to my Lancaster one. I'm closing all
>> my Google related accounts due to their alleged pimping of user data to the
>> US government.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Adrian.
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