08-23-2024, 08:09 PM
(08-23-2024, 03:00 PM)k0rn Wrote: Well seeing as I have been using gmail for my work for years changing it.
Now is not the best option. And yes I am on call of sorts. I have to have government certification for work and use their apps. It is what it is.
Unless you're actually on-call you could always lock that thing in an old metal cash box or something. That's what they used to do if you had to enter any secure facilities. No idea what they do now.
I'm not too worried about Google or the government perusing business email. Unless you're in some type of illegal trade I don't see what they will get out of it if you're not evading taxes or anything... seems mind-numbingly boring.
Call me paranoid, but I don't think the government has any business reading my personal communications.
Another interesting element of the times is all of these businesses and agencies demanding that people use their cell-phones for this, that, or the other thing. Takes a lot of gall IMHO. In the 80s and 90s I never had a business or government demand that I use my personal property for anything. I purposely left my phone at home for a couple weeks. The deer in the headlights looks I got when I asked wait-staff for a printed menu were priceless. Its almost like time before 2020 never existed.
I had a credit card company demand that I scan my face with their app to update my phone number. I said NOPE! They can send me a pin or something in the mail and I'll verify once I receive it. I've also had one of the big box retailers get a little pushy about not using their app on a pickup order(they wanted to scan some barcode). I was like "well golly-gee its almost like store employees never brought groceries to anyone's vehicle before cell phones were invented!" (to the youngsters here - this was standard practice everywhere up until the early 2000s)
