In August an American Gmail user received a confidential data message from 1,325 customers at a bank, Rocky Mountain Bank. The e-mail was mistakenly sent by a bank employee who, upon realizing the error, immediately sent a message explaining what had happened and asking the user – which had nothing to do with the story – to have the e-mail content confidential and their attachments were deleted.
With no response from the user, the bank decided to ask Google for help, and requested information about the email account to which the secret message had been sent. Google, however, denied access to user data.
As a result, the lender has filed a lawsuit against Google, requiring detailed information about said email user.
Given the lawsuit, California Judge James Ware ordered Google to deactivate the indicated Gmail account and identify the account holder.
After delivering the information about the user, the judge allowed him to have his Gmail reactivated.
Google has often been brought to justice in various countries for obtaining private information from emails, blogs and social networking profiles.
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