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The Chronicle reports on new laws about GMail: Bill puts limit on ads in e-mail:

In an effort to protect user privacy, the state Senate voted Thursday to place limits on Google’s new e-mail service and its controversial advertising policies.

Seems like an overreaction, doesn’t it? I mean, Google’s offering a feature-rich web-based email service for free… who cares if they show some ads alongside the messages?

But maybe Google is not so innocent after all. The print version of the Chronicle article claims:

Google … had originally planned to save deleted messages indefinitely and collect information about individual users to create databases of their preferences for marketing purposes.

The above passage does not appear in the online version of the article. The online version has apparently been revised:

Because of the wording of Gmail’s terms of service, some privacy groups were concerned that Google would save deleted messages indefinitely and collect information about individual users to create datatbases of user preferences for marketing purposes. Google denies any such plans.

Well, never mind then!