 BlackbirdBuilt for SpeedPremium
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Re: 13,753 Gov't Requests for Google E-Mail Data in 2012... said by StuartMW: quote:
American government agencies – state, local, and federal -- made a record 13,753 requests to read emails or gather other information sent through Google’s Gmail and other services in 2012, more than half without warrants, according to statistics released by Google...
» cnsnews.com/news/article/13753-g···-warrant Which works out to one request every 38 seconds, 24/7. The authorities are very busy boys. Of course, the good news is that it works out to only 1 request for every 21,800 inhabitants of the country - so it probably didn't include you. Last year. Maybe. Or... maybe not...  It didn't include me, because I don't use Gmail nor correspond with anyone who does. 
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 StuartMWWho Is John Galt?Premium
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| I only use the Google search engine and that with the GoogleSharing proxy (to anonymize searches). No Gmail (!), no Ewetoob, nothing 
That said I have relatives who use Gmail  Good thing they don't talk to me much
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 AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium
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said by Blackbird:works out to only 1 request for every 21,800 inhabitants of the country - so it probably didn't include you. Last year. Maybe. Or... maybe not...
not necessarily, one request can span 100s of accounts/users.
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