Hooha over Google's Gmail!

How stupid can people get! A California senator is drafting legislation to prevent Google from releasing Gmail out of privacy concerns. She along with many others are concerned that it will be an invasion of privacy since Google will scan emails to display relevant text ads. Will someone tell the honorable senator that no Google employee will be sitting at a computer to scan emails? For heaven's sake, the emails will be scanned by computers, just as they are being scanned right now by every conceivable email service like Yahoo! or Hotmail for purposes of fighting spam. No one sees the email apart from the electrons in the computer and the recipient's eyes! The lengths people go to!