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To be fair to Google, they did nothing until ordered by a US court. Is there any more you can ask?
by dtf 17y ago
To be fair to Google, they did nothing until ordered by a US court. Is there any more you can ask?
- dschobel 17y agoI think what's troubling is really a combination of two independent circumstances. First, one company has access to tons of my personal data. I trust this company, they seem well intentioned and they have a very reasonable privacy policy. It's also extremely useful to me to have all of my data (email, personal contacts, calendar) in one place and accessible via a web-interface. However, when you throw in the second variable, namely, the mixed-bag which is the US judicial system it can all be torpedoed with the flick of a wrist. I really would have preferred to have seen the judge tell the bank "tough shit" and have someone (either the email recipient or EFF) put up more of a legal resistance to this court order.
- dtf 17y agoTrue, the court system is rather unpredictable in this new territory. To me it seems reasonably fair though - as the owner of the account was unreachable, and many other people's private data was at stake. I would say that Google followed the rules properly, even if the bank didn't. I found the Liskula Cohen blogger case much more troublesome, and the ongoing TCI Journal case is especially disturbing.