Google does no evil, still can't win

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A Little Harsh?

Google has a problem. In a day of data insecurity and known governmental efforts to pursue potentially personally identifiable information, Google is between the proverbial rock and a hard place.

If they don't keep extensive backups for all their users for X amount of time, then the users get all upset when they get hacked and lose all their mail. (Note, this is the users getting hacked by using an insecure version of the Firefox browser, not Google getting hacked.)

Does that mean that Google is at fault somehow? I think not. Google is responsible for securing itself, not everyone else.

As yet, Google is the only search engine to categorically refuse the US government in its efforts to obtain search data. That could mean big things if the government ever comes after our e-mail. I have nothing to hide in mine, but that's TODAY. What about tomorrow?

I'm not saying we live in 1984, but it is possible that the government could decide it wants to charge any one of us with terrorism, and they need our e-mail to make the case. Google might not be able to refuse forever, but isn't it nice to know that if you delete your mail, it is far more difficult to recover, if not gone forever?

Slain.

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