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In a lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission, a subpoena is sent to Google for the complete contents of a Gmail account, including deleted e-mail messages. This is unrelated to the Department of Justice's own subpoena to Google for search terms and excerpts from its search database.
ding ding ding! That's why Walkman no longer uses Gmail...I doubt they ever delete anything.
From the article:
Google's privacy policy says deleted e-mail messages "may remain in our offline backup systems" in perpetuity.
