Allow Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, etc to maintain the "metadata" as they do now. When the NSA wants to search for the contacts of a particular email address, etc, they can ask the corportate overlords to do it. they only do it a few hundred times a year, no problem. We will always give up our privacy for free email accounts.
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Allow Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, etc to maintain the "metadata" as they do now. When the NSA wants to search for the contacts of a particular email address, etc, they can ask the corportate overlords to do it. they only do it a few hundred times a year, no problem. We will always give up our privacy for free email accounts.