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Google: Gmail Users Can't Legitimately Expect Privacy

2013-08-14 09:33 by
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If you are one of the 400 million people who use Google's Gmail service for sending and receiving emails, you shouldn't have any expectation of privacy, according to a court briefing obtained by the Consumer Watchdog website.

In a 39-page motion filed in June to have a class-action data-mining lawsuit dismissed, the Web giant cites Smith v. Maryland, a 1979 Supreme Court decision that upheld the collection of electronic communications without a warrant.

"Just as a sender of a letter to a business colleague cannot be surprised that the recipient's assistant opens the letter, people who use web-based email today cannot be surprised if their communications are processed by the recipient's ECS provider in the course of delivery," said a motion filed by Google.

"Google has finally admitted they don't respect privacy," said John Simpson, Consumer Watchdog's privacy project director in a statement. "People should take them at their word; if you care about your email correspondents' privacy, don't use Gmail."

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