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Of course they don't lie. Overly specific denials are much better than lying. > “Mike makes a serious allegation here — that Google opened email messages in hi
by lawl 13y ago
Of course they don't lie. Overly specific denials are much better than lying.
> “Mike makes a serious allegation here — that Google opened email messages in his Gmail account to investigate a leak,” Kent Walker, Google general counsel, said in a statement.
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> “The source had corresponded with me from a non Google email account, so the only way Google saw it was by accessing my Gmail account,” wrote Arrington. “A little while after that my source was no longer employed by Google.”
Arrington declined to comment.
See, you don't need to actually open the email to see if a correspondence occured.
At least that was the first thing I thought when I read the article.
But of course, we'll probably never know. And I agree with you that we shouldn't jump to conclusions, it's just a possibility.
Should they get caught I doubt there will be a fall out. They can go the NSA route: It was just metadata.
- nl 13y agoArrington claims Google had a copy of the email. That isn't metadata. Ignoring that is 3 layers of hearsay, there are multiple ways Google could have received that email without checking the Gmail account.
- declan 13y agoHuh? Kent's statement on behalf of Google was anything but narrow. It was general: "We have never done this." If I'm comparing the veracity of Kent's blanket denial vs. Mike A's hypothetical well-maybe-they-did (which could be satisfied through multiple alternative methods), well, that's an easy call.
- lawl 13y ago> Huh? Kent's statement on behalf of Google was anything but narrow. It was general: "We have never done this." The definition of this in context: > that Google opened email messages in his Gmail account to investigate a leak So that's not a blanket denial. Mike accused them of "accessing my Gmail account". Which Kent explicitly rephrased to "that Google opened email messages in his Gmail account to investigate a leak". That's pretty narrow in my books.