Google promises that it will not read your email without your consent

Your e-mail may not be out of sight, whether you use Gmail, Yahoo! Mail or Outlook. And especially if you use third-party email clients. A recent report revealed that some developers do not hesitate to let their employees read e-mails that go through their applications. Google responded with a blog post that explains how it has put in place mechanisms to prevent such abuse. Except that said mechanism does not seem to protect the users of such third parties and, perhaps, even from Google itself.

Google stopped giving human employees access to emails after reports of its business practices were revealed. And while its own policies are preventing it, it seems to have little control over what app developers outside of Google are doing to these emails. And, according to these developers, it's common knowledge, the dirty secret of technology.

Google says "not quite". It checks the developers of applications and services that access e-mails. This filtering process uses both automated and manual screening which, according to the search giant, involves evaluating the application's privacy policy and how they represent themselves accurately. Since the well-known commercial practice has been in use for a long time, this process does not seem very reassuring. Google also says that it suspends applications that violate its rules but, according to these reports, it has never done in practice.

Google also assigns some of the responsibility to users, explaining how they can review and revoke the permissions they grant. applications to access their email. They can also view non-Google apps that access their Google data through their account's security check. The problem with this control, certainly useful, is that it does not tell users how application developers or businesses can or can not have their emails read by their employees. The permission of an email application to view and manage emails is, of course, equal to that of the course. But unless users search through user contracts and terms of service, they will never find out that they have granted these developers and service providers permission to have these emails read by humans. .

less scanned in name spam filtering. Google assures its Gmail users that it does not do so for the purpose of showing ads. It also states that no one at Google ever reads your email, but makes two exceptions. The first is when you give them your consent and the second is when investigating security issues. Google does not say they need your consent for the latter.