The accidental leak of client data by a Goldman Sachs via Gmail has landed the banking giant in a New York court to try and get it to authorize search and destruction of the message. Google appears to agree with the bank.
According to Reuters, the sender of the message was confused by Gmail's autocomplete feature in the "To:" field, where he wanted to send a report with the customer's details to an address "gs.com", but instead sent it to a similar name, unrelated to a "gmail.com" account.
After trying, without success, to contact the “accidental” recipient of the information, the bank has asked Google to try to trace where the document may have ended up. Google seems willing to cooperate, but legal obligations indicate that a court order is required before that can happen.
Goldman a massive invasion of privacy” for its clients and “defaming Goldman Sachs.” The latter may already have happened.
