微软（Microsoft）并不是惟一一家保留进入用户电子邮箱的权利的公司。《卫报》（The Guardian）的亚历克斯•埃尔恩称，谷歌（Google）和雅虎（Yahoo）也都这么干。我们大多数人看也不看就点了“同意”，但埃尔恩跟我们不一样，他真的看了上述公司的用户协议。

    这个问题于上周曝光。当时，出生于俄罗斯、居住在黎巴嫩的前微软员工亚历克斯•基布卡罗因为被指控出售大块Windows 8源代码被捕。

    微软在西雅图联邦法院起诉基布卡罗，起诉材料中包括基布卡罗与法国一位博客用户的Hotmail通信。上周五公布的一份声明显示，微软未经法院允许，就查看了这些电子邮件的内容。

    因为好奇其他网页邮件提供商是否也保留了查看其用户电子邮箱的权利，《卫报》的埃尔恩干了件少有人做的事：他真的读了邮件供应商允许用户通过点击“同意”按钮跳过的法律样板文件。

    苹果icloud用户协议的相关部分如下：

    您认可并同意，苹果可在其认为必要或适当的情况下，获取、使用、保存和/或向执法机关、政府官员和/或第三方披露您的帐户信息和内容而无需对您负责，只要是按照法律规定，或者我们有很好的理由相信此获取、使用、披露或保存行为是1）符合法律程序或要求；2）履行本协议，包括调查任何潜在违规；3）检测、预防或解决安全、欺诈或技术问题；或4）按法律规定和要求保护苹果、苹果用户以及第三方权利、财产或安全所必要的。（财富中文网）

    译者：项航

    Microsoft (MSFT) is not the only company that reserves the right to break into its customers' e-mail accounts. According to The Guardian's Alex Hern -- who actually read the user agreements that most of us blindly accept -- Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG) and Yahoo (YHOO) do as well.

    The issue came to light last week when Alex Kibkalo, a Russian-born former Microsoft employee living in Lebanon, was arrested on charges that he was selling off chunks of Windows 8 source code.

    The complaint filed against him in a Seattle federal court included Hotmail exchanges between Kibkalo and a French blogger -- e-mail that Microsoft read, according to a statement released Friday, without a specific

    court order.

    Curious whether other webmail providers reserve the right to poke around their customers' e-mail accounts, The Guardian's Hern did what few people do: He actually read the legal boilerplate the providers allow you to skip past by clicking the "Agree" button.

    This is the relevant portion of Apple's iCloud agreement:

    You acknowledge and agree that Apple may, without liability to you, access, use, preserve and/or disclose your Account information and Content to law enforcement authorities, government officials, and/or a third party, as Apple believes is reasonably necessary or appropriate, if legally required to do so or if we have a good faith belief that such access, use, disclosure, or preservation is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process or request; (b) enforce this Agreement, including investigation of any potential violation thereof; (c) detect, prevent or otherwise address security, fraud or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property or safety of Apple, its users, a third party, or the public as required or permitted by law.