"Google boss warns of 'forgotten century' with email and photos at risk"

Future concerns for historians on preserving digital data as technology advances, including the legal implications of obtaining such data...or is this another ploy for Google to ensure access to our information in the future?

“'When you think about the quantity of documentation from our daily lives that is captured in digital form, like our interactions by email, people’s tweets, and all of the world wide web, it’s clear that we stand to lose an awful lot of our history...We don’t want our digital lives to fade away. If we want to preserve them, we need to make sure that the digital objects we create today can still be rendered far into the future'”

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/13/google-boss-warns-forgotten-century-email-photos-vint-cerf