<div dir="ltr"><div>I taught an intro self defense class today and a student asked for a PDF of the handout. I was ready for this and pulled out my android phone to email a copy of the PDF I had stashed earlier on the phone. I was using my gmail account account to send to an <a href="http://emory.edu">emory.edu</a> account. I have never met this person before and have had no prior communications with them. I do not get my emory email using gmail but I do use the google/android supplied exchange client to get my work email so the communication is SUPPOSED to be encrypted between server and phone. This person's name was on an email I got on my Emory account as having paid but not their email address. Their address was <a href="mailto:first.last@emory.edu">first.last@emory.edu</a><br>
<br clear="all"></div><div><div>I started typing in the student's Emory email address and gmail auto-completed for me.<br><br></div><div>Correctly.<br><br></div><div>This happened TWICE with two different Emory students in the same class.<br>
<br></div><div>My GPS was probably on and the class was posted on the recreation site. Has Google become so adept at deducing what's going on that they can predict who will attend a seminar class and correlate with a GPS location to correctly guess TWICE on a non-gmail email address?!?!?<br>
<br></div><div>Totally creepy and I'm thinking about tossing my phone in front of a steam roller.<br></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><i><i><i><i><br></i></i></i></i>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<br>
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain<br><i><i><i><i><br><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br></i></i></i></i></div>
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