As a non-US citizen, this shocks me, even if it shouldn't by now. Does this indeed make it legal for a "chief corporate espionage officer" at Google to have a

As a non-US citizen, this shocks me, even if it shouldn't by now. Does this indeed make it legal for a "chief corporate espionage officer" at Google to have a handy little dashboard of competitors inboxes? Can trade secrets only be defined by courts retrospectively?