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August 15, 2013 12:41 am GMT

Google's Position on Email Privacy Misrepresented by Media Reports

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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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