{"id":642351,"date":"2013-02-14T09:39:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T14:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=216751"},"modified":"2013-02-14T09:39:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T14:39:20","slug":"valentines-day-scroogled-video-has-a-google-human-reading-peoples-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/642351","title":{"rendered":"Valentine\u2019s Day \u201cScroogled\u201d Video Has A Google Human Reading People\u2019s Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you may know, Microsoft recently resurrected its “Scroogled” campaign against Google, attacking Gmail in the latest round. More on the campaign here<\/a>, but the premise is basically that Microsoft wants Gmail users to be aware that Google serves them ads based on the content of their messages. They’re framing it as a privacy issue, though Google doesn’t actually have humans going through your email. It’s all algorithmic. <\/p>\n

We talked about the whole thing with Microsoft’s Stefan Weitz more in depth here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Anyhow today is Valentine’s Day, and Microsoft has put out a new Scroogled video for the occasion. The video shows a mail man (or a “Gmail” man) opening letters and reading them (again, Google has no humans reading your messages). It also shows an Outlook.com mail man delivering the mail without opening letters and reading them. <\/p>\n