From: Alexander van der Wolk <av2139@columbia.edu>
  To  : <CPC@emoglen.law.columbia.edu>
  Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:37:01 -0500

[CPC] Court Orders GMail Disclosure

Court Orders GMail Disclosure

"A judge has ordered Google surrender all emails, including deleted  
ones, from a Gmail account to the Federal Trade Commission.  The  
request comes from an FTC investigation into consumer fraud."

http://news.com.com/2100-1047_3-6050295.html

Well, so much for safety with Google. My favorite part of the article:

"Google's privacy policy says deleted e-mail messages 'may remain in  
our offline backup systems' in perpetuity. It does not guarantee that  
backups are ever deleted. Baker estimated he may have tens of  
thousands of e-mail messages in his Gmail account."

I love Google. They provide such a helpful service. Online stored  
data has been held to a substantial lower degree of privacy, since  
there is a smaller expectation of privacy when you transmit, store  
and access your data online with a third party. Given Google's  
privacy statement, I would say there's absolutely no expectation of  
privacy in GMail. That's too bad. If only someone had told Baker  
about this.


Alex

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