Google allows third-party Gmail app developers to have access to user emails . The Californian company said last year that it would stop using the content of users' posts for its advertising benefits, but it seems that this information was not as safe as that. It may have been thought since.

This is Revealed ] The Wall Street Journal which ensures that third-party applications can 'scan the inboxes of millions of Gmail users who have subscribed to email services offering price comparisons, travel planners travel automated tools or others. "

The information has been confirmed by Google itself, ensuring that this only applies in the case of trusted developers and always with the express consent of the user. who have access go from the name of the recipient, the message itself or the time of dispatch delicate information that the company provides under the satisfaction of certain criteria accepted by the people they use these applications and that, as in most cases where conditions and conditions of use are accepted, they go unnoticed.

Not only machines, not just third-party applications

is something new and, although disturbing, it is even more than the messages can also be read by people and not just by computers seeking to improve the service based on co models for example, This translates into thousands of private emails read by people outside of them under the most diverse pretexts, that do not stop pointing in a very clear direction that turns out to be the opposite of respecting life private users.

In addition, from the technological giant, they also confirm that Google's own employees can access e-mails "in very specific cases in which ask and give your consent, or when we need it for security reasons, such as the investigation of an error or abuse. "In short, one last example, Gmail is far from being able guarantee total security and completely private use of a platform used by millions of people every day.

At the present time no case of abuse or violence has been reported. misuses derived from access to private information but with the Cambridge Analytica scandal still very recent, it is inevitable that you think of how this could end. For the moment, it is to say the least reassuring that Google offers carte blanche to people outside the company to access information as sensitive as emails. You can manage the services and applications related to your Gmail account from the dedicated company tool for this purpose.