15 Jan
2010
15 Jan
'10
6:05 p.m.
On Jan 13, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Anthony Uk wrote:
The ability to automatically discern users' political positions from their inbox is not one that any email provider reasonably needs.
I'm not Chinese, but putting myself in their position... I would be surprised if they were trying to determine anyone's political positions. Google's observation that the targeted parties were dissidents suggests that they are known to be dissidents without looking at their gmail content. If I were of the specified mindset and were looking at their mail, I think I might be mapping dissident networks to identify potential dissidents I was unaware of and looking to see if they mentioned any specific plans or pointed to specific content.