&gt;The DoJ contends that emails should be treated as the business records of the company hosting them<p>what? are my DropBox files &quot;business records?&quot; or that youtube video I uploaded? or my Google Contacts?<p>Perhaps I was foolish enough to define &quot;business records&quot; as &quot;documents that record the actions of&#x2F;facts about a business?&quot;<p>It is almost certainly against the spirit of the law&#x27;s definition of &quot;business records&quot; -- ledgers, internal emails, receipts, etc.