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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. Can't help but wonder... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... who you think is so interested in you, and why?

  2. Re:oh! by JoshRosenbaum · · Score: 0, Troll
    Mods, this is not funny, this joke is old and tired and I'm not even sure this error actually occurs anymore.
    I don't know how you got marked Troll. :( I completely agree with you, I've seen this tired old joke about 1,000 times at the top, and it's NOT funny. :( Somehow it always works out that I lose my mod points the day before I see something that actually needs modding. In this case I would mod the original down and your post up, because it most certainly is not a troll in my opinion. Although you could've at least backed it up with a username.
  3. Re:Hate to say 'I told you so', but... by Braino420 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I find it not evil that Google is following the law of the land... Or do you make a living defending criminals?

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