Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails 346
rudy_wayne (414635) writes A Goldman Sachs contractor was testing internal changes made to Goldman Sachs system and prepared a report with sensitive client information, including details on brokerage accounts. The report was accidentally e-mailed to a 'gmail.com' address rather than the correct 'gs.com' address. Google told Goldman Sachs on June 26 that it couldn't just reach into Gmail and delete the e-mail without a court order. Goldman Sachs filed with the New York Supreme Court, requesting "emergency relief" to avoid a privacy violation and "avoid the risk of unnecessary reputational damage to Goldman Sachs."
Non-story. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Reputational Damage (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Disclaimer? (Score:5, Informative)
At least every lawyer type e-mail I get has a giant disclaimer at the end if you are NOT the intended recipient. Perhaps GS should have considered using that? Over paid dopes.
Every time I see one of those worthless disclaimers, I crack up. You can't unring a bell and I am under NO obligation to delete any email that was sent to me if it was addressed to my email account. If you typed the wrong address, that's your problem, not mine.
Re:Disclaimer? (Score:3, Informative)
You are incorrect. The email may be mis-addressed, but you are still the intended recipient of that email, as given by the fact the email envelope has you as the recipient. You therefore have a legally acceptable record that that individual email was sent directly to you.
Re: Reputational Damage (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Too late now (Score:4, Informative)
No -- according to the updated article, the account hasn't been accessed between the mail was sent and Google breached it to comply with Goldman Sachs' demand.
Treat it like regular mail. (Score:4, Informative)
Re: Reputational Damage (Score:4, Informative)
Or, he just mistakenly typed '@gmail.com' instead of '@gs.com'
Before autocorrect, people used to make this kind of mistake all the time, it was so common we had a name for it - we called it a 'typo', and we were forced to take ownership of the mistake.
Now we either call it txt-speak or we blame it on auto-correct.