Google Pushing Back On Law Enforcement Requests For Access To Gmail Accounts 75
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from the for-your-eyes-only dept.
Virtucon writes "Ars technica has an interesting article on how Google is handling requests from law enforcement for access to Gmail accounts. With the recent Petraeus scandal where no criminal conduct was found, it seems that they're re-enforcing their policies and standing up for their users. 'In order to compel us to produce content in Gmail we require an ECPA search warrant,' said Chris Gaither, Google spokesperson. 'If they come for registration information, that's one thing, but if they ask for content of email that's another thing.'"
Re:service centralization = bad idea (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:What about contacts graph? (Score:4, Interesting)
Stupid answer.
How many mail servers do you think Google has? Lots. Geographically distributed.
And guess where the traffic goes to get from one to another? Public internet.