CA State Senator Will Try to Block Google's New Gmail Service

According to this CNet article, Google's new free Gmail service will insert ads into its Gmail after searching the content for key words consistent with Google's ads. Privacy advocates are freaked out over this but if Google clearly discloses this to customers, which they plan to do, we don't see what the big deal is all about. The ads alone kill the concept for us.

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