Never a moment of rest forr the control freaks: Security Pipeline | News | California Senator To Block Google's Gmail: "A California state senator will introduce legislation opposing Google's recently-announced Gmail Web-based e-mail service, citing invasion of privacy concerns. Sen. Liz Figueroa, a Democrat from Fremont and the author of the state's 'Do-Not-Call' law that lets Californians block telemarketing calls, last week sent a letter to Google urging the company to rethink its plan to roll out a free e-mail service." My theory is that the poorly defined concept of what our privacy rights actually are will poison all other laws in this country. The notion that a state senator, or a national one for that matter, needs to potect me from a FREE service that I am not bound in any way to use is simply astonishing. If our legislative bodies would MAKE LAWS regarding abortion, gay marriage, drugs, and a host of other things, then these issues would not so frequently find their ways into courts where the non-existent privacy clause of the Constituion could be brought into play.