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Re:Customer's 20-year-old email account shut down over unusu... by criddell on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @08:45PM (#14699259)
I know people that use it because they think it is better from a privacy standpoint.

It might not be correct now but at one point the Electronic Communications Privacy Act stipulated that data left on a server for more than 180 days is considered to be abandoned and the government can easily and legally access it.

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Re:Customer's 20-year-old email account shut down over unusu... by mirimir on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @12:57AM (#14700057)
Yes, there is that. But in reality, the NSA arguably has copies of everything. Or at least, metadata. And it almost certainly retains copies of all encrypted messages.
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Re:Customer's 20-year-old email account shut down over unusu... by criddell on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @10:20AM (#14702582)
I'm more worried about the situation where somebody reveals some corruption in a small town police department and the police decide to investigate that individual by looking at that person's "abandoned" data.
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