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<blockquote data-quote="pedr" data-source="post: 6172792" data-attributes="member: 33464"><p>Google's argument is that no one who sends an email has a legitimate or reasonable belief that the data contained in that email will not be processed by the computers of the recipient email service. This is self evident because, unlike a letter, the technical steps to transmit the content of a email to a recipient require technical processes to be performed on the data which contains the "content" - Google's computers must do "stuff" to the bits which encode the words of an email to get the email to a Google user.</p><p></p><p>What is controversial is that Google adds steps whereby its computers use that content to influence the advertisements displayed to recipient Google users. The suit argues this is a violation of privacy, and Google says that it is no different from what it would have to do anyway, so there's no reasonable expectation of privacy.</p><p></p><p>Google doesn't assert that Google employees have the right to read or provide access to emails by other humans (or other organisations computers), just that adding computer analysis to aid in advertising is conceptually no different from computer analysis to turn computer data back into the displayed words of an email for display to the recipient. This may not be convincing, but I'm not sure it means Google argues that emails aren't private. </p><p></p><p>Of course the recent revelations mean that email in fact isn't private, and it may, actually, be an ethics violation or unlawful to use email (and Dropbox etc) for legal and medical communication and storage, given what's now known about government access to such systems. That's an issue that's only just coming to the fore, but it isn't really connected with this particular suit against Google.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pedr, post: 6172792, member: 33464"] Google's argument is that no one who sends an email has a legitimate or reasonable belief that the data contained in that email will not be processed by the computers of the recipient email service. This is self evident because, unlike a letter, the technical steps to transmit the content of a email to a recipient require technical processes to be performed on the data which contains the "content" - Google's computers must do "stuff" to the bits which encode the words of an email to get the email to a Google user. What is controversial is that Google adds steps whereby its computers use that content to influence the advertisements displayed to recipient Google users. The suit argues this is a violation of privacy, and Google says that it is no different from what it would have to do anyway, so there's no reasonable expectation of privacy. Google doesn't assert that Google employees have the right to read or provide access to emails by other humans (or other organisations computers), just that adding computer analysis to aid in advertising is conceptually no different from computer analysis to turn computer data back into the displayed words of an email for display to the recipient. This may not be convincing, but I'm not sure it means Google argues that emails aren't private. Of course the recent revelations mean that email in fact isn't private, and it may, actually, be an ethics violation or unlawful to use email (and Dropbox etc) for legal and medical communication and storage, given what's now known about government access to such systems. That's an issue that's only just coming to the fore, but it isn't really connected with this particular suit against Google. [/QUOTE]
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