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Judge Orders Deleted Emails Turned Over

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that-is-a-lot-of-mash-letters dept.

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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  1. Re:That's just like... by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    BadAnalogyGuy, is that you?

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  2. With apologies to Douglas Adams by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Doing No Evil - a HOWTO Guide, presented in Socratic Dialogue form, courtesy of Zaphod Beeblebrox"

    Google: The gmail documents may remain present in our offline backup system.
    IRS: I eventually had to go down to the cellar...
    Google: That's the offline backup system's machine room.
    IRS: ... with a torch.
    Google: Ah, the lights had probably gone.
    IRS: So had the stairs.
    Google: But you found the tape, didn't you?
    IRS: Yes. It was backed up on paper tape stored in the bottom of a locked drawer beneath a PC04/PC05 tape reader with a dot-matrix printed sign on the door saying 'ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS.' Ever thought of going into search technology?

  3. Re:Hate to say 'I told you so', but... by IDontAgreeWithYou · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, I mean you wouldn't want the following email message to get out into the public

    to: MOM
    from: TripMasterMonkey
    Subject: Second Post :(


    Mom, I only got second post on the slashdot story about Gmail. Well, at least I got +5 interesting for mentioning 1984. If you need me, I'll be in the basement. A new story is coming out in 5 minutes and I have to do some serious copying and pasting and then mention privacy concerns. See you upstairs later tonight for dinner.

    Love, Your son TMM ^_^
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  4. Re:Hate to say 'I told you so', but... by deadlinegrunt · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would think that they have Google Backup. Beta of course...And only employees can be invited.

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