Storm on Google, third-party app developers can read your email. Here's how to defend yourself

The first to tell the story. history was Wall Street Journal he learned the case directly from the officials. In fact, the American newspaper has maintained with several companies offering these services, whose employees have admitted to read thousands of texts and then make good use of the company. This is the case of the software Edison, a company that offers a mobile application to organize mail: he admitted to having scanned emails to develop a new service. Or eData Source Inc, which deals with the badysis of data: it has improved its algorithms, naturally only after scanning the mail of its users, to understand what needed to be changed.

On the one hand, this should not come as a surprise, as explained Luca Carettoni an expert in information security. Because many of these applications are developed by small businesses that do not have the technology to debug, that is, to identify and fix software errors, or simply to improve them. . They compensate for this lack, sneaking into our lives. And we allow them when we accept the famous "Terms and Conditions". On the other hand, the devil is still in the details since these clauses are buried between the lines. Alan Woodward of the University of Surrey pointed BBC that we could spend whole weeks reading them. And the fact that an external company can see the content of the message escapes human understanding. In practice, something we would never have thought of. Instead, it happens.