Comments on: Can I send confidential emails by Gmail? You can in New York. http://compujurist.com/2009/02/24/307/ Practice Management, Legal Technology and items of interest for the Modern Lawyer Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:26:31 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Toby Brown http://compujurist.com/2009/02/24/307/comment-page-1/#comment-24678 Toby Brown Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:22:13 +0000 http://compujurist.com/?p=307#comment-24678 Nerino - I posted on this subject recently (www.geeklawblog.com) and agree with you that lawyers should be cautious about how they use email. My read on Gmail is that it actually doesn't meet the NY opinion. Specifically I don't think Google's "policies and stated practices protect client confidentiality." Google's TOS gives them a right to any content that touches their systems. Thus not only are they not protecting client information, they are excersizing a right to own it in a sense. Thanks for the timely post. Nerino – I posted on this subject recently (www.geeklawblog.com) and agree with you that lawyers should be cautious about how they use email. My read on Gmail is that it actually doesn’t meet the NY opinion. Specifically I don’t think Google’s “policies and stated practices protect client confidentiality.” Google’s TOS gives them a right to any content that touches their systems. Thus not only are they not protecting client information, they are excersizing a right to own it in a sense.

Thanks for the timely post.

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