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Google's Position on Email Privacy Misrepresented by Media Reports
Several sites reported on Tuesday that Google believed Gmail users had no expectation of privacy in the context of their emails
The alarming stories referred to a legal brief (embedded below) in which Google's lawyers supposedly made the unsettling argument. But the stories — with headlines like "Google: Gmail Users Have No Reason to Expect Privacy" appear to have taken the passage out of context.
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The flurry of panic-inducing stories was started by Consumer Watchdog, with a piece that quoted a passage from page 19 of Google's motion to dismiss a class-action suit brought on by some Gmail and non-Gmail users that argue that the company illegally mines the content of Gmail accounts, violating several federal and state anti-wiretapping laws Read more...
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