Reply to post: Re: Imagine

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Re: Imagine

I've never considered that a plausible excuse as it attempts to skip over the actual offence: you're accessing someone's data without their explicit permission. Yes, explicit: in Europe, you have to specify at the point where you ask permission what you're up to, and not bury it at the end of a TB worth of Terms so people don't realise it. What you use for that and for what purpose matters little at that point, the offence has been committed..

Also, it still doesn't address accessing incoming mail, permission for which cannot be assumed unless it happens to be another Gmail victim user.

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