Exactly why I don't use gMail.

Oh, and great shop Doc!

Hmmmm....I had to go look, the ad I got wasn't related to the email, but......

They admit that the ads are based on your email. Damn, that's bold.

Ridiculous, MS are just as bad. Besides, my worry isn't corporate spying but government spying and they're both just as much in bed with the intelligence organizations.

Here's what MS and Google and any other tech giant hands over to the NSA: EVERYTHING. If they say it's "encrypted" they're lying. If they say it's "safe" they're lying. If it's in the Cloud the NSA has it. If it was sent over the internet the NSA has it. If you are working for a corporation that is large enough (few thousand employees) then even if you encrypt in-house the NSA still have the keys because their job is literally to spy on you. They blackmail and bribe and they always get what they want because what they want is the law and speaking up against it is illegal. If they've approached you and you leak it to the press, you'll go to jail. You can't even tell people you can't tell people.

Your tax dollars at work. Your votes at work.

lol...you're just finding out about that now?

It's been going on for years.

At least MS doesn't do this particular evil (it does others).

If you are talking about scanning emails, Microsoft DOES do it as well.

Doc, you ain't right....

Hahaha good god doc that shop you did of starkers  is awesome . I just got home  from a karaoke night at a pub hahaha had a blast  poor old starkers is in bed I left that naughty boy at home  while I had fun  hehehehe

Useless shirts. Microsoft scans emails as well for ad placement. It's been proven.

Since the NSA has all this info - why can't they shut down the spammers?

Because many servers are abroad...

And it looks like all the 'useless shirts', etc. have sold out (a rumor).