新华网8月14日电 据GIZMODO网站报道，关于人们非常关注的电子邮件不可靠问题，又有更坏的消息出现了。一份由谷歌公司的律师们起草的报告浮出水面，该报告称，Gmail邮箱的用户从来都不应该“对个人隐私的保密性有任何法律上的预期”。

这份报告是由一个消费者保护组织Consumer Watchdog发现的，它写于2013年7月13日。该报告原本是回应针对谷歌公司的一起集体诉讼而起草的，谷歌希望美国加州北部地区的地方法院能够不予受理此案。根据该文件，用户任何使用谷歌服务器的电子通信都能够被或有可能被全权访问，该访问可以基于所有目的，包括推销广告。

根据该议案：

一个发件人发送一封邮件给商务伙伴并得知这封信是由收件助手软件打开后不应该感到惊奇，而使用基于web的电子邮件的用户当得知他们的邮件在投递过程中被收件方程序（电子邮件提供商）处理也不应该感到惊奇。确实，当人们将信息自主地交给第三方时，他就不应该对该信息的保密性在法律上有所预期。

当然，谷歌公司也强调了其饱受质疑的隐私策略更实际的目的；每当用户使用关键字或搜索过滤器来查找信息时，谷歌不得不扫描电子邮件本身。他们宣称，反对使用这一搜索方式的法规将妨碍并且使他们的商业实践“变为非法”：

事实上，原告的理论会让电子商务提供商无法为用户提供正常的服务，而这些服务美国国会不可能将它们认定为非法窃取信息。例如，电子商务提供商无法允许用户使用自动过滤器对他们的电子邮件进行排序，因为这样一个系统会要求对用户收到的电子邮件内容进行扫描，这与原告的理论冲突了。同样，电子商务提供商也不会提供类似让用户在邮件中查找某些特定词的基本服务，因为这样一来，会再次涉及扫描邮件内容的问题。

谷歌明确表示用户并无固有的隐私权利，只要想到谷歌本着这一信念，乖乖遵循美国国安局的要求交出用户隐私，就让人十分不安了。这也让消费者保护组织Consumer Watchdog大呼头疼。在一份给rt.com网站的声明中，隐私项目负责人约翰·M·辛普森写道：

谷歌的报告使用了错误的推论。发送电子邮件就像投递邮件到传统的邮局一样。我希望邮局根据信封上所写的地址投递信件，我不希望邮递员在中途打开我的信件并阅读它。同样，当我发了一封电子邮件的时候，我希望邮件被投递到基于电子邮件地址的有Gmail账户的收件人那里。为什么我要让谷歌拦截并阅读我的邮件呢？

就在几天前，两家提供保密、安全的电子邮件订阅服务的公司迫于所谓的”外部压力“停止了服务。这样来看，用户对隐私的权利尽管至关重要，但同时也越来越不清晰了。

译者：余南

百度新闻与新华网国际频道合作稿件，转载请注明出处。

Google: Gmail Users Have No Reason to Expect Privacy

Here's some more bad news to add to the pile of concern over email vulnerability, a brief filed by Google's attorneys has just surfaced and revealed that Gmail users should have "no legitimate expectation of privacy"—ever.

The brief, unearthed by Consumer Watchdog, was filed on July 13, 2013 in response to a class action complaint against the company to the United States District Court for Northern District of California in the hopes that the court would dismiss the case. According to the document, users should assume that any electronic corresponded that finds its way to Google's servers can and may be full accessed and used for a whole slew of purposes, including selling ads.

According to the motion:

Just as a sender of a letter to a business colleague cannot be surprised that the recipient's assistant opens the letter, people who use Web-based email today cannot be surprised if their emails are processed by the recipient's [email provider] in the course of delivery. Indeed, 'a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties.

Of course, Google emphasizes the more practical purposes of the questionable privacy policy; every time you type in keyword or run a search filter, in order to pilfer through your messages, Google has to scan the actual email. They go on to claim that a ruling against this method would hinder and "criminalize" their basic business practices, stating:

In practice, plaintiffs theory would prevent ECS providers from providing a host of normal services that Congress could not possibly have intended to criminalize as an illegal interception. For example, an ECS provider could not allow users to sort their emails using automated filters because any such system would require scanning the contents of the emails being delivered to the user, thus running afoul of plaintiffs theory. Nor could an ECS provider provide even basic features like allowing users to search their own emails for particular key terms because doing so would, again, involve the scanning of email content.

Still, Google's explicit belief that its users lack an inherent right to privacy is more than a little disconcerting in light of how this might translate to compliance with NSA requests. And this has Consumer Watchdog more than a little upset. In a statement to RT, Privacy Project director John M. Simpson says:

Google's brief uses a wrong-headed analogy; sending an email is like giving a letter to the Post Office. I expect the Post Office to deliver the letter based on the address written on the envelope. I don't expect the mail carrier to open my letter and read it. Similarly when I send an email, I expect it to be delivered to the intended recipient with a Gmail account based on the email address; why would I expect its content will be intercepted by Google and read?

And with all this coming out just days after the news of two secure, subscription email services shutting down after alluding to vague "outside pressures," the matter of a user's right to privacy is becoming at the same time all the more important and increasingly hazy.

(原标题：谷歌：Gmail用户没理由期望自己拥有隐私权)