This incident comes to mind. http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-teens-spied-on-chats http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-sta

This incident comes to mind. http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-teens-spied-on-chats http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee... Hope they have better controls now so that snooping on your data is not so easy for a Google employee now. But they're under no legal obligation since you sign away your rights when you upload data to their server. No one in that case would have a legitimate case against Google in court.