Judge Orders Deleted Emails Turned Over

Anonymous Coward writes "In a lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission, a subpoena sent to Google orders the turnover of the complete contents of a Gmail account, including deleted e-mail messages. The Judge has granted the subpoena and orders that all e-mail messages, including deleted messages, be divulged. 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. So much for the Delete Forever button."

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Since when did the gov't make sense?

[FatSean]

Seriously, I would not be surprised if a law is passed that makes it illegal NOT to keep X years of emails backed up. Damn the cost to private industry, the republican-majority gov't needs to spy on it's people!