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Just got registered with a local GP in Ireland¹ and their first email states that all their staff are “formally trained in GDPR procedures and any information you give will be used in the strictest confidence.”
Their email address is @gmail.com
¹ This, in and of itself, is a bloody miracle these days, apparently, and only happened because it’s a new practice that’s just opening up.
@aral To be fair, assuming they have a corporate Google account, their emails are not scanned for advertising purposes.
If they're just using personal accounts, they shouldn't be in the medical profession.
@aral our pediatrician uses an `@gmail.com` address and clicking to confirm appointments routes you to an app hosted at a bare IP address, no TLD configured.
@aral I'm tempted to see if they'd let me fix it all for a small fee plus the improvement to my own sanity
@aral this is why FLOSS advocates & hackers should work with doctors, schools, real estate agents, activists… and teach them about privacy & decentralization - while learning from them about real-world use cases for “our” ethics & principles
@becha Well, I’ll definitely be mentioning it :)
@aral Even worse would be if it was @gmɑil.com, @ɡmail.com, gmail.cοm, etc.
(Visually identical or nearly interchangeable while reading fast, but with completely different Unicode characters that lead to a different email server.)
