> In the fall of 2011, Google was able to tell Appelbaum that the government had sought data such as the IP addresses of the people he e-mailed with, Google ne

> In the fall of 2011, Google was able to tell Appelbaum that the government had sought data such as the IP addresses of the people he e-mailed with, Google needs to store your plaintext email so it can make money by showing you ads, but its data retention policies are both unnecessary and outrageous.