Google: Gmail Users Can't Legitimately Expect Privacy

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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