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Between You, Me, and Google: Problems With Gmail’s “Confidential Mode” With Gmail’s new design rolled out to more and more users, many have had a chance to try out its new “ Confidential Mode. ” While many of its features sound promising, what “Confidential Mode” provides isn’t confidentiality. At best, the new mode might create expectations that it fails to meet around security and privacy in Gmail. We fear that Confidential Mode will make it less likely for users to find and use other, more secure communication alternatives. And at worst, Confidential Mode will push users further into Google’s own walled garden while giving them what we believe are misleading assurances of privacy and security. With its new Confidential Mode, Google purports to allow you to restrict how the emails you send can be viewed and shared: the recipient of your Confidential Mode email will not be able to forward or print it. You can also set an “expiration date” at which time...

As we wrapped up 2017 and looked toward 2018, I began a small research project to determine new and better ways to help our banking and financial services customers with their biggest sustainability and operational efficiency challenges, ie. corporate social responsibility, and what I found surprised me. I already knew that sustainable operations fit into corporate social responsibility goals but I never realized just how much our financial services clients were doing to drive a low carbon future for our planet.  Global banks are no longer just seeking to be good corporate citizens with a few token deeds, rather they are out to change the world by increasing energy security, reducing the negative impacts of industrialization in emerging economies, and financing a more sustainable energy system.  According to Goldman Sachs environmental stewardship report , it really comes down to technology, capital and policy. We see our financial services customers investing in clean ener...