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thewayneGoogle is pretty much under constant anti-monopoly investigation, and they hide communications by training their people to CC all of their emails to the company's attorneys! Regardless of whether or not the email is in the least bit significant or needs legal consultation, they do this and if a subpoena comes along, Google then claims attorney/client privilege. This absolutely flies in the face of the fact that this action completely does not establish attorney/client privilege. They have even been previously cautioned on it, and continue doing it! The attorneys mostly ignore the emails and never respond, probably don't even look at them unless they're from certain managers - think of the time and charges involved if they looked at this flood!
Remember Google's alleged motto a few years ago? "Don't be evil". I laughed at it then, I laughed at it now.
While I do use their search engine, Maps, and Gmail, I don't use Gmail for anything resembling private communications. It's throw-away stuff and mailing list collectors.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/google-routinely-hides-emails-from-litigation-by-ccing-attorneys-doj-alleges/
Remember Google's alleged motto a few years ago? "Don't be evil". I laughed at it then, I laughed at it now.
While I do use their search engine, Maps, and Gmail, I don't use Gmail for anything resembling private communications. It's throw-away stuff and mailing list collectors.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/google-routinely-hides-emails-from-litigation-by-ccing-attorneys-doj-alleges/
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Date: 2022-03-25 08:47 pm (UTC)If you're interested in starting your email life over from scratch, I'd seriously consider ProtonMail.com. They offer end-to-end encryption, it was founded by engineers from Cern and is based in Switzerland and is bound by Swiss/EU privacy laws. They have a free tier that has minimal restrictions: 500 meg storage overall and 150 email a day, which is not difficult to abide by for most people, and a paid tier which is about $50US a year. My big complaint about Google, which most people don't understand, is that YOU are the product. Everything is free because they mine every bit of information that they can glean about you and sell it to advertisers. It is theoretically anonymized, but at their core they are an advertising company, the largest in the world. This is why I'm hesitant to give them much in the way of personal information about me and don't use their email for personal comms.
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Date: 2022-03-25 10:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-03-25 10:35 pm (UTC)At $30 annually for the basic plan, that looks like a pretty good service!