"In the context of emails, multiple courts have recognized that
no one can reasonably expect that the emails they send to others will be
free from the automated processing that is normally associated with
delivering emails," Google responds to the case with this week’s motion.
"Plaintiffs fail to articulate a single concrete injury stemming from the automated processing of emails sent to Gmail users," Google adds. "Plaintiffs instead rely on conclusory allegations that their privacy rights were infringed in the abstract."
Additionally,
Google charges that no state statues being called into question applies
to the plaintiffs’ allegations, writing in their motion that the terms "electronic communication," "email," "Internet" and "computer" are not included.
"Even
if the court were to accept plaintiffs' invitation to judicially
rewrite the statute to reach electronic communications, choice of law
rules would still preclude applying CIPA to this case," Google’s motion states.
"CIPA makes clear on its face that it is intended to protect California residents and not to regulate California businesses," Google adds.
Judge
Koh is now expected to hear the motion on March 21, 2013. Meanwhile,
congressional Republicans wrote to the White House this week to attack a
planned cybersecurity executive order that would allow third-party
companies, such as Google, to openly share customer-inputted information
with the federal government.
“An executive order exerting influence over critical infrastructure is not just a step in the wrong substantive direction,” the letter reads. “It
will almost certainly be exploited by other nations to justify their
efforts to regulate the Internet. This is a most critical time, and we
cannot afford a hasty, unilateral action that will only serve to bolster
the efforts of less democratic nations to stifle the very free exchange
of ideas and expression that has allowed the Internet to flourish
across the globe. For these reasons, we urge you to rethink the wisdom
of an executive order.”
excerpt from: http://rt.com/usa/news/google-gmail-users-plaintiffs-289/
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