Hace unos cuantos meses muchos se escandalizaron por la aparición de anuncios relacionados cuando entrábamos en algún mensaje de correo electrónico en GMail. Al final la cosa quedó ahí, se juró que eran máquinas y que eso no debía afectar a la privacidad.
Ahora le toca el turno a Microsoft de hacer lo mismo con el Windows Live Mail Desktop, y su nueva tecnología Active Search.
En el fondo, aunque se puede desactivar (y aparecerían mensajes publicitarios “de toda la vida”) el sustituto de Outlook Express nos deja con las siguientes perlas:
- we rely on computers, not humans, to look for relevant keywords in your email messages and RSS article
- we will never trace any keywords we may collect while getting results from our search and advertising services back to the person from whose email they were drawn
- we remove any trace of keywords we may collect while getting results from our search and advertising services from your PC every time you clear your Internet Explorer Temporary Internet Files cache or restart Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta
- we never share email content (including email addresses) or personally identifiable information from Active Search with advertisers or third parties without your prior permission.
- never looks for keywords at all if you’ve switched Active Search off – really, off means off
- never looks for keywords in files attached to your email messages
- only looks for keywords in email messages and RSS articles marked as “safe” by our Junk Email Filter
- avoids looking for sensitive data like credit card numbers or social security numbers that may pop up in your mail from time to time and for which search results would be of little use.
¿Habrá quejas como las hubo con GMail?
Claro que habra quejas, es de Microsoft.