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~Ok, so I was reading Dear Margot, and found out that Gmail reads e-mails through an algorithim. You have been warned! The answer towards the bottom is really what you want to read. I just copy and pasted the entire thing.





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Your Secret's Safe with Yahoo!



DEAR MARGO: Some time ago, my boyfriend, Laurie (it's a boy's name in England), got me to take some rather saucy photos of myself in my underwear, as he was working in another city and our love life was restricted to phone sex. We were communicating by Yahoo! mail, and I'd send him sexy snaps every week.





Then I heard a rumor that the young men who work at Yahoo! and places like that have easy access to the e-mails. When I heard that, I thought back over the years about all the private, sometimes quite dirty e-mails that I mailed Laurie and, of course, all those photos. I'm going crazy with worry.



Don't tell me that companies like the phone company and Internet companies like Yahoo! have security measures in place, because a good friend of mine showed me just this week how staff can have access to people's e-mail as easily as taking candy from a kid.





--- CAUGHT IN A WEB



DEAR CAUGHT: A Yahoo! News vice-president (my boss) answered your question for me.



"User privacy is of the utmost importance in everything we do at Yahoo! You'll find it spelled out in our TOS and Privacy Policy that Yahoo! will not monitor or edit the contents of a user's private communications. All the relevant details can be found at http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/utos-173.html. (To translate from geek-speak to English, TOS means terms of service.) We don't read people's e-mail and we don't target ads based on their contents -- unlike, say, gmail -- where no human reads the e-mail, but their algorithms do.



This is the reason you can write a friend about poor Aunt Hilda in Halifax being depressed, and then get an ad for mental health services in Nova Scotia."



So, my dear, fear not about your private messages to Laurie on Yahoo! unless someone hacks his computer.