There’s been a furor raised over Google’s new email offering, which is still in the testing phase. The controversy has spread to such things as an interesting post on why privacy issues matter… to me, which raises some great points about transparency, identity theft, social boundaries, civil rights and education. A piece of proposed legislation in California might be a cure worse than the harm Gmail might impose.

With all of these questions and concerns springing up, it’s nice to see one of the founders of Google come forward and discuss the future of Gmail.

Steve Gillmor talks with Sergey Brin about the ideas behind the controversy Gmail. The service delivers an incredible amount of free space for your email.

But it also has raised some hackles when it comes to privacy, and the idea that it will deliver context appropriate advertisements with emails.

The article gives a glimpse of the Google founder’s thoughts concerning RSS, Social network Orkut, an API to go with Gmail, enterprise email, encryption,and other subjects.

It’s kind of fun to read Sergey Brin’s thoughts about technology. Nice interview.

I’ve got a test gmail account (as a blogger user). I sent myself some pictures from work to home with it, but haven’t shared the address with anyone yet.

I do like the all the space, but maybe I’m blinded by Gmail’s Gigabyte. I will confess that I had a serious case of user interface deja vu going from my Yahoo email account to the Gmail account.