Personal e-mails are read by third parties – Tv Media

There is a new scandal related to the privacy of personal data online to shake the technology industry. Google has confirmed that emails from Gmail accounts are read by third parties.

Indeed, Google's e-mail service allows developers of applications to which their users have access to access their accounts for the purpose of collecting information developing applications or software that takes into account the trends of people targeted by "spying".

The complaint was filed by the Wall Street Journal, which also revealed that about 1.4 billion users are affected by this policy. allowing programmers to browse hundreds of thousands of emails from around the world. Created in 2004, Gmail is the most popular email service in the world.

Google states that the practice is legal since it is the users who allow access to their emails when they associate their account with the service provider.

The company still guarantees that users can view your account's security settings page to find out which apps are linked to your email and may revoke third-party access to your data at any time.

] A year ago, the tech giant had guaranteed that he would prevent his computers from scanning Gmail users' inboxes to personalize ads