Can you believe Verizon is scanning and censoring private email?

2015-11-04T07:32:40-05:00

http://www.infowars.com/verizon-begins-scanning-and-censoring-customer-emails/

Response by PO3 Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 4 at 2015 7:36 AM

2015-11-04T07:36:29-05:00

lol using spam as excuse to SCAN all email. :) good plan .... NSA!!!!!

Response by PO1 John Miller made Nov 4 at 2015 7:38 AM

2015-11-04T07:38:18-05:00

I'm not sure how much I can trust something coming from infowars.com. But if it is true, I don't see how Verizon could strip attachments and URL's, unless the email is going to a verizon.com email address. That would be possible. I don't see how they could strip those same things from a Third-party email address (Yahoo, Gmail, etc.) one may have linked to their Smartphone.

If it is all true though, one more reason to NOT use Verizon as your service provider!

Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 4 at 2015 8:32 AM

2015-11-04T08:32:25-05:00

Unfortunately, the scanning of emails has been going on for years, Google, for example, uses your email contents to tailor advertisements towards your interests. I had heard that email providers scanned emails in an attempt to stop spam. Yahoo had a system where once an email was marked as spam a certain number of times its contents were scanned and any other messages within its system that matched were automatically moved to the spam folder.