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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: 2022-03-27 04:54 am (UTC)I don’t see how the USA will ever get a GDPR. California passed a law much like one, I’m not sure what types of protections it enshrines and how effective it will be, much less when it takes effect. There’s a lot going on right now with FB etc: they thought they had achieved a carve-out with the EU concerning a data-sharing arrangement, and a U.S. judge just passed a not directly related ruling that pretty much tore apart that arrangement. So all we can do is wait and see and keep the popcorn coming.