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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. Kind of Funny by Goo.cc · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "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."

    This is kind of funny, considering this dude is trying to get his own email back and can't seem to get any help (not even a human response) from Google:

    http://blog.outer-court.com/forum/22209.html

    Maybe he should sue.

  2. Re:Hate to say 'I told you so', but... by BewireNomali · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    lawl!!!!!!! funny.

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