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Members of President Donald Trump’s National Security Council, including White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews with three U.S. officials.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

BUTTERY MALES

Even less secure than Signal. Google probably has stored copies of those emails for the 13 eyes countries, and who know what else had access to them.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

At least those were investigated.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (3 children)

....are you telling me someone can hack my gmail?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

At the very least, google is scraping your emails for data.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Time to ask gemini about US trouo placements!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

i've always wondered, what do "they" do with the data?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sell targeted ads based on information they learn about you. It's a pretty straightforward business model.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

"Senator, we sell ads."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Mostly build a profile so they know what ads to show you, and a few helpful features such as telling you have to go to get to your flight or appointment on time by reading the confirmation mail. These days also for your AI assistent.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Try to sell you extended car warrantied.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

I'm telling you that war plans are coming soon to Google AI results

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I’m telling you that when you’re ready you can hack the planet

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You know several nations had access to each of those accounts. These idiots reuse their passwords all the time.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

CLEAR ON OPSEC!!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

All I can see is *******

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

Wildly less secure

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Should have used @clintonemail.com domain instead