>The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure required Google to suspend its auto-delete practices in mid-2019, when the company reasonably anticipated this litigation.

This is exactly what I said and disproved what you said.

The US Gov is saying that Google should have expected it, but they never notified Google until much later.

There is no such thing as "reasonably anticipated this litigation" because nobody told them. This entire article is just taking the US gov at 100% fact when Google's side of the story is actually the more reasonable one. Every company on earth has auto deletion policies, although 24 hours is a bit short, it's not intentional destruction of evidence when they were never officially notified.

This is the government trying to shift blame to Google because they didn't want to tell them they were being investigated. This will get thrown out.

>Google was notified

Actually, they weren't. The US is saying that Google should have expected it, but they never notified Google until much later.

Taxes are so incredibly high in the EU and EVs have substantial VAT and registration exemptions to the point where a Prius would be the same price as a Tesla Model Y in some countries.

You can get a brand new Prius OTD for ~30k USD in most of the US, but you aren't getting a Prius for less than 45k EUR (50k USD) in most of Europe, and then you also have to pay 8 dollars per gallon to fill it up.

Imagine if you had to choose between a 50k Prius or a 55k Tesla (after subsidies), and you can see why these higher end EVs are doing so well.

Because it was actually designed to be private and collect minimal metadata. The signal protocol is well understood and vetted, so for the 99.99% of people it’s extremely private and secure.

Of course you could go all the way back to using IRC with Tor and then using PGP to encrypt your messages, but if you get to that point E2EE is probably the least of your worries.

Zero knowledge encryption is rare because people don't like losing access to everything if they forget their password.

Even then, email was never and will never be designed to be private. Anyone who says your email is completely private is lying to you. Even ProtonMail has quite misleading marketing because they can trace every email based on the metadata (which they conveniently leave out in almost all of their documentation).

If you want privacy, use Signal.