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Google is Testing Self-Destructing Emails in New Gmail (techcrunch.com)
The upcoming update to Gmail might include a feature which would allow users to send emails that expire after a user-defined period of time. From a report: Working on an email service is hard as you have to be compatible with all sorts of email providers and email clients. But it doesn't seem to be stopping Google as the company is now evolving beyond the simple POP3/IMAP/SMTP protocols. Based on those screenshots, expiring emails work pretty much like expiring emails in ProtonMail. After some time, the email becomes unreadable. In the compose screen, there's a tiny lock icon called "confidential mode." It says that the recipient won't be able to forward email content, copy and paste, download or print the email.
FYI: Just because something can be doctored does not mean it is not permitted as evidence. The most common form of evidence is witness testimony, which is inaccurate, easily altered, and degrades over time.
Itâ(TM)s called the Investigatory Powers Act in the UK and itâ(TM)s actually 1 years retention of data for all national level or international level companies. Small, local companies donâ(TM)t have to comply. GPs claim of 7 years is based on the older Regulatory Investigative Powers from 2000-2016.
It applies to data and service providers so for the ISP itâ(TM)s web history, email, phone calls. For data and service providers its all data and meta data.
Itâ(TM)s a horrible piece of legislation and currently being fought in the UK courts by many parties. In the Mainland EU they are trying to pretend that they disagree with the UK at EU parliament level but have the same data collection program only itâ(TM)s classified in the EU so nobody talks about it. In the UK people in the know are raging but the general public have no idea.
The US is no better, infact the UK collects extra data in conjunction with the US as part of the US Prism Program
I work with these systems every day, I work digital forensics with a large police county. You donâ(TM)t even have to be law enforcement to get access, your kids school can request access, your doctor can request access, pretty much anyone in a public service job can request your web and email history.
First google link in search: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/oct/30/telecoms-companies-to-retain-browsing-data-under-new-law
Some of the Agencies that can access collected data:
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/investigatory-powers-bill-act-snoopers-charter-browsing-history-what-does-it-mean-a7436251.html