When I look back in my gmail I'm always glad it kept record of times and snapshots of my life and conversations with those I love. I understand encryption to p

When I look back in my gmail I'm always glad it kept record of times and snapshots of my life and conversations with those I love. I understand encryption to prevent an outsider seeing in, but I'm glad I didn't go to their extremes to leave no trace whatsoever. In this age of no printed photos, our digital traces are all we often have to remember our life. You forget so much, and when you go back, you remember so many things you had forgotten and see so many things you remembered wrong.