investigators | business fraud | criminal defenseGoogle: we will invade your privacy
Aug.14.2013
In a blunt admission in a brief filed recently in federal court, lawyers for Google said people have no expectation of privacy when they send messages to a Gmail account.
Google’s brief said: “Just as a sender of a letter to a business colleague cannot be surprised that the recipient’s assistant opens the letter, people who use web-based email today cannot be surprised if their emails are processed by the recipient’s [email provider] in the course of delivery. Indeed, ‘a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties.’
A highly redacted version of the complaint was filed publicly.
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/resources/googlemotion061313.pdf
Google’s brief said: “Just as a sender of a letter to a business colleague cannot be surprised that the recipient’s assistant opens the letter, people who use web-based email today cannot be surprised if their emails are processed by the recipient’s [email provider] in the course of delivery. Indeed, ‘a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties.’
A highly redacted version of the complaint was filed publicly.
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/resources/googlemotion061313.pdf