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Re:Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail by onetimemanytime on Friday April 13, 2018 @12:17PM (#16831408)
Not everyone is worried that NSA is tracking them live: virtually all are more worried about wife or dirty laundry being made public. Or an email sent at 2am after 14 beers...6 years ago.

This solves quite a few problems. Then, Google can start on other problems, like PGP.

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Re:Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail by virusduck on Friday April 13, 2018 @12:21PM (#16831457)
I kind of agree. Although, it doesn't really solve anything. Look at Snapchat--your naughty photos can still be saved no matter what you do.
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Re:Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail by sirclueless on Friday April 13, 2018 @01:19PM (#16831971)
The point here is not to stop malicious recipients from saving the data. The point is to stop sensitive stuff from showing up in discovery in a lawsuit 3 years from now because a recipient didn't know to delete it.
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