The Internet giant argued in a US lawsuit that people who send messages via email should not “be surprised” if those messages are intercepted by the recipient’s email provider, in the same way that someone sending a letter to a business associate might expect it to be opened by a secretary.
“People who use web-based email today cannot be surprised if their emails are processed,” Google said. “Indeed, ‘a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties,” it added, citing a Supreme Court judgment handed down over electronic communications in 1979 – long before Google existed.
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