Gmail Now Alerting Users of Suspicious Activity

[anamaniac]

Now only if my bank did this.
Someone stole $500 form me and then my bank locked my account due to suspicious activity (transactions were placed a few thousand kilometres away), all without ever even trying to contact me.

Props up to Google.

 

[Hilarion]

[citation][nom]loomis86[/nom]The only way google can offer these stupid warnings if is they are spying on your account and how you use it.[/citation]
Glad someone is smart enough to catch this. +10

 

[dr1241]

Every website uses your ip address already. It is how the internet works, it is also how to keep things secure. Email is nothing, if google really wanted to exploit their knowledge base, they wouldn't do it by your email habits, they'd do it by all the god awful searches everyone keys into their search engine. Watch the interview with Eric Schmidt talking about how he wouldn't google anything you wouldn't let your mother see.