Taken to the logical extreme, knowing the deleteing mail (after dumping the trash) isn't actually removed from the database until you run the purge, would it be illeagal in Germany to purge deleted email?
How far do you take this? Seems silly to me. The intent of a trashcan is clearly 2 things, a temporary storage mechanism to allow for the oops factor, and to mark items as not needed. If you provide for the oops factor, I think this is perfectly fair. Another example of government being silly IMHO.. On Saturday 26 February 2005 06:50 pm, Jeff Brenton wrote: > Hello Simon, > > S>>The perfect solution to this is to send out periodic "privacy notices" > to > > >>users, pointing out that anything left on the system, including mail left > >> in the trash folder, is subject to seizure during any official inquiry. > > SL> does not work in germany. a federal law is a federal law and sending > SL> notices prior to violate against them is no solution. even contract > must SL> not violate (even in parts only) federal law. > > Who said anything about the system operator deleting them? If the people > are at all paranoid, they'll make sure they empty their trash folder at the > earliest opportunity. The notice simply points out that "in the trash" > isn't "deleted", and anything they don't want made public in an official > inquiry should not be left in the trash bin. > > Of course, I would also have a policy in effect that enforces a total > mailbox size, and let people know that, when their mailbox is "full", > further mail would be bounced back to the sender, until they made room in > their mailbox. > > Unless, of course, THAT is also illegal in Germany...
