Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Disturbing Gmail observation.

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Author: Ottavio Caruso
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Disturbing Gmail observation.

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 13:26:39 +0100, "Victor Churchill"
<victorchurchill@???> said:

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> More about
> Percy »
> Tom Waits »
> Tom Welling »
> Tom Wood »
> Tom Townsend »
> Tom Tryon »
> Tom Tucker »
> Tom Turner »
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> I hypothesise that one of the people in my colleague Percy's Bcc:
> list is called Tom
> and that Google has 'leaked' that information into its ad-selecting .
> Am I right? And should I report this to the Google guys?
>
>



Well, this is something my boss would be very glad to hear. But before
crying foul we should comapre the headers of the original email with the
ones of the received email and see if there's a clue. Then we should
replicate the same behaviour with another carefully crafted email, if
this happens again, we can cry foul.

Then we should check whether this happens even if you use a mail client
vs the web interface. If you can prove that, Google will receive a dent
in their mail business.

Let us know.


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