Re:Google Gmail purchase history can't be deleted
by Spooky23 on Saturday July 06, 2019 @08:31PM
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As someone who ran a significant email service for several years and dealt with many variations of discovery requests, no it isn’t.
Nobody said that you need to run a mail server, just keep your data in your possession.
If you are worried about privacy with respect to your data, you only have limited protection for 180 days if it is on the providers server. (See Stored Communications Act)
In the US, the 4th amendment ensures that you are “secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects”. But when you put your papers or effects in the hands of a third party who isn’t your attorney, you lose much of those rights.
GMail IMO is the most honest of these services, as they are very clear that your privacy is limited in scope. Fastmail, Protonmail, etc imply things that are not as meaningful as one may think.
Nobody said that you need to run a mail server, just keep your data in your possession.
If you are worried about privacy with respect to your data, you only have limited protection for 180 days if it is on the providers server. (See Stored Communications Act)
In the US, the 4th amendment ensures that you are “secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects”. But when you put your papers or effects in the hands of a third party who isn’t your attorney, you lose much of those rights.
GMail IMO is the most honest of these services, as they are very clear that your privacy is limited in scope. Fastmail, Protonmail, etc imply things that are not as meaningful as one may think.
See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine