After 180 days in the U.S., email messages lose their status as a protected communication under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and become just another database record. This means that a subpoena instead of a warrant is all that's needed to force Google to produce a copy. Other countries may even lack this basic protection, and Google's databases are distributed all over the world. Since the Patriot Act was passed, it's unclear whether this ECPA protection is worth much anymore in the U.S., or whether it even applies to email that originates from non-citizens in other countries.
Gmail is too creepy (http://gmail-is-too-creepy.com/)
That is something I did not know. It's also apparently difficult to actually delete individual emails, plus the act of deleting an email may not actually delete it from Google's server. Cavet emptor and all that.
It's not difficult to delete an individual message. From the conversation view, expand all, and select the message, then "move to trash" .. and then from the trash you can delete it permanently. Not a big deal.
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I hate aol i wanna get rid of it!
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*BLUSHES*
Thank you!! :)
Re: *BLUSHES*
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Minimum requirement of 6 characters for login sucks, though.
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my email addy is Jheahtma@twcny.rr.com
and hers is Mjessic2@twcny.rr.com
we've been both looking for gmail invites.
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That is something I did not know. It's also apparently difficult to actually delete individual emails, plus the act of deleting an email may not actually delete it from Google's server. Cavet emptor and all that.
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