Gmail users should not expect any privacy in emails, Google admits

Google has admitted that users of its email service cannot expect privacy.

The confession was made in a legal submission to contest a class action lawsuit which accuses the company of breaking US wire tap laws.

Its submission states: ‘Just as a sender of a letter to a colleague cannot be surprised that the recipient’s assistant opens the letter, people who use web-based email today cannot be surprised if their communications are processed by the recipient’s email provider in the course of delivery.’



[link to metro.co.uk]