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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
It isn't about Google reading the emails, and storing data on gmail users, it's about Google reading the emails, and storing data on non-gmail users.
It doesn't matter if you decide not to use gmail anymore, as long as you send or receive emails from gmail accounts, Google still gets data on you.
What is strange here is what Google considers that the term "privacy" means to them. In the motion, it seems to go with an absolute definition. As long as another person (or software) is seeing the correspondence beside the sender and the recipient the correspondence isn't private.
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There is no way for a web service to handle your mail and have the automated system not "see" the text, it's how spam checking is done, it's how google pulls out stuff like addresses and offers to map them. If you have issues with that, encrypt everything, because every single service is going to scan through the email for verification and enhancements.
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The article on thenextweb.com is trying to make some kind of point here:
but might have failed to notice that the privacy policy doesn't mention anything about email content, and therefore Google isn't bound by anything in regards to email content.
What I am curious about is what happens to emails that have a disclaimer such as:
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If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please notify the sender and delete it.
Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of this email or its attachment(s) is forbidden.
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As always, that disclaimer is worth the paper it's written on.