[conspire] email retention [was Re: VPN]

[Tony Godshall]

> On a slightly different topic, I recently read something from Google saying they help security by deleting emails after 90 days.  No thank you.  It is not uncommon to want to get in touch with someone after many months.   For example, old college friends who I message only on special occasions.
>
> Not sure how deleting old messages helps security, but it does save G storage space.

The legal distinction is probably the issue in this case, where recent
email is considered protected communications while old email is
considered a digital archive, requiring less of a warrant, I recall
this being the case in the USA, but am hazy on the details, and I am
not a lawyer, and obviously all legal matters depend on jurisdiction,
and one should not take such guidelines at face value without a better
legal analysis of one's own situation, such as where one lives, where
the data lives, and which laws bind the corporation holding your data.
If you are concerned with government access to your documents, you
should probably avoid all forms of "cloud" storage.