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Opolis does not ask Google to Do More to Protect Privacy – Instead: You can!

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal launched the following article: “Ten Countries Ask Google to Do More to Protect Privacy”. – Opolis argues that users already have a choice.

In its Technology Online edition from 20 April 2010 the Wall Street Journal reports that privacy officials of 10 countries sent Google a letter on Monday demanding that the Internet giant build more privacy protections into its services. Accordingly, the letter, signed by officials in Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom reflected the latest sign of increasingly international anxiety over Google's power. A Google spokesperson was reported to have declined to comment on the content of the letter saying, "We have discussed all these issues publicly many times before and have nothing to add to the letter."

In another article “Google Attackers Gained Access to Computer Code” in the same edition, the Wall Street Journal reports about attackers who supposedly breached Google's systems in 2009 and gained access to a computer code for the software that authenticates users of Google's Email, calendar and other online programs. According to that article Google, which disclosed the attacks in January, opted following the incident to shut down its censored search service in China. Google had previously stated that it believed that the attackers were trying to access the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.

The issue at stake here is the mechanics in regards to today´s Email traffic architecture: Regardless whether sent via Yahoo, Hotmail or Gmail, Email messages are generally not encrypted and have to pass through numerous intermediate computers before reaching their destination. Hence, Emails can be intercepted and subsequently easily read.

Today´s flawed Email architecture was the starting point of launching Opolis Secure Mail and Document Messaging Service (http://www.opolis.eu): Opolis provides a free point-to-point encrypted Email and document messaging service for corporate and private users. In the Opolis architecture the sender has always full authority over what the recipient is allowed to do with a message and is empowered to monitor the entire path of a message. For example, the sender decides whether the recipient may copy, print, respond to or forward a message or not. – Even in the unlikely case that an Opolis Email was intercepted, it could not be interpreted or read.

Consequently, Opolis argues that Email users already have a choice today: For sending sensitive and confidential information Opolis offers a global, free and user-friendly service running in both, the Windows and Apple worlds.

Opolis does not ask Google to Do More to Protect Privacy – Instead: You can!

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal launched the following article: “Ten Countries Ask Google to Do More to Protect Privacy”. – Opolis argues that users already have a choice.

In its Technology Online edition from 20 April 2010 the Wall Street Journal reports that privacy officials of 10 countries sent Google a letter on Monday demanding that the Internet giant build more privacy protections into its services. Accordingly, the letter, signed by officials in Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom reflected the latest sign of increasingly international anxiety over Google's power. A Google spokesperson was reported to have declined to comment on the content of the letter saying, "We have discussed all these issues publicly many times before and have nothing to add to the letter."

In another article “Google Attackers Gained Access to Computer Code” in the same edition, the Wall Street Journal reports about attackers who supposedly breached Google's systems in 2009 and gained access to a computer code for the software that authenticates users of Google's Email, calendar and other online programs. According to that article Google, which disclosed the attacks in January, opted following the incident to shut down its censored search service in China. Google had previously stated that it believed that the attackers were trying to access the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.

The issue at stake here is the mechanics in regards to today´s Email traffic architecture: Regardless whether sent via Yahoo, Hotmail or Gmail, Email messages are generally not encrypted and have to pass through numerous intermediate computers before reaching their destination. Hence, Emails can be intercepted and subsequently easily read.

Today´s flawed Email architecture was the starting point of launching Opolis Secure Mail and Document Messaging Service (http://www.opolis.eu): Opolis provides a free point-to-point encrypted Email and document messaging service for corporate and private users. In the Opolis architecture the sender has always full authority over what the recipient is allowed to do with a message and is empowered to monitor the entire path of a message. For example, the sender decides whether the recipient may copy, print, respond to or forward a message or not. – Even in the unlikely case that an Opolis Email was intercepted, it could not be interpreted or read.

Consequently, Opolis argues that Email users already have a choice today: For sending sensitive and confidential information Opolis offers a global, free and user-friendly service running in both, the Windows and Apple worlds.