Between You, Me, and Google: Problems with Gmail's “Confidential Mode”

"Making a commercial product that bypasses IRM is a potential felony, carrying a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine for a first offense".

But Gmail works in a web browser that already provides everything you need to edit out the print/copy protection CSS & JS code: https://grokprivacy.wordpress.com/2018/06/24/archiving-self-...

If the EFF's points in this article are accurate, I would agree that the naming of such features will lead many to believe they are getting more privacy and security than the reality of the situation.

If there are any google people here, I would be very curious to hear your take on this article.