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Google reacted on Tuesday to a backlash on Gmail, after it was reported that third-party app employees could read people's e-mails.
Google has described how it works with external software developers. The search giant also said that it is reviewing third-party applications to make sure that they only "request relevant data" and "are accurately represented."
The review came from a report of Street Journal earlier this week that "hundreds" of third-party software vendors could scan your box of receiving through third-party Gmail applications. Gmail currently has over 1,000 million active users per month. In some cases, developer employees had access to thousands of emails from Gmail users.
A developer, Return Path, a marketing company that offers free tools for email organization, has allowed its employees to read about 8,000 user emails two years ago to help develop the software of the company. Another free application, called Edison Software, that helps users manage their email, has allowed their employees to read thousands of Gmail messages to form the "Smart Response" feature in their application, reported on Journal
Google also said Tuesday how the company uses the data. The search giant said last year that it would stop scanning user emails to get data to help advertisers target advertising.
"The practice of automatic processing has led some to speculate that Google is reading your emails," says the blog. "To be absolutely clear: no one in Google reads your Gmail except in very specific cases where a user requests and gives consent, or when we need it for security reasons, such as investigating an error or abuse. "19659010] Reading:
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