[quote name='WhipSmartBanky'][quote name='Lootr2Core']Ok I'm getting more and more paranoid, I got a gmail account today and when I went to delete something I got the following msg.
No conversations in the trash. Who needs to delete when you have 1000 MB of storage?!
They don't want me to delete? Is this funded by the cia or something (as any email older than 6 months are not protected for privacy.) I am more and more thinking of becoming rusty shakelford
Need to do more research but this is from
http://gmail-is-too-creepy.com/
Google offers 1 gig of storage, which is more than 100 times the storage offered by Yahoo or Hotmail, or any Internet service providers that we know about. The powerful searching encourages account holders to never delete anything. It takes three clicks to put a message into the trash, and more effort to delete this message. It's much easier to "archive" the message, or just leave it in the inbox and let the powerful searching keep track of it. Google admits that even deleted messages will remain on their system, and may also be accessible internally at Google, for an indefinite period of time.
After 180 days in the U.S., email messages lose their status as a protected communication under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and become just another database record. This means that a subpoena instead of a warrant is all that's needed to force Google to produce a copy. Other countries may even lack this basic protection, and Google's databases are distributed all over the world. Since the Patriot Act was passed, it's unclear whether this ECPA protection is worth much anymore in the U.S., or whether it even applies to email that originates from non-citizens in other countries.
Google's relationships with government officials in all of the dozens of countries where they operate are a mystery, because Google never makes any statements about this. But here's a clue: Google uses the term "governmental request" three times on their terms-of-use page for Gmail and once on their privacy page. Google's language means that all Gmail account holders have consented to allow Google to show any and all email in their Gmail accounts to any official from any government whatsoever, even when the request is informal or extralegal, at Google's sole discretion. Why should we send email to Gmail accounts under such draconian conditions?[/quote]
I see somebody got their tin foil hat all crinkled...
IMO, if you're foolish enough to conduct sensitive communications over email, much less a free, insecure email service, then you deserve to be served.[/quote]
its more serious than you think....the gov can know what items i was outbid on ebay!!