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Author Topic: Google Says It Continues to Allow Apps to Scan Data From Gmail Accounts  (Read 134 times)


Richardk

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Re: Google Says It Continues to Allow Apps to Scan Data From Gmail Accounts
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2018, 07:11:35 pm »
So by having a Google email account, you're allowing unknown companies to read your "mail".

What if the US Postal system did the same, say 20 years ago? You can pay postage and nothing changes or you can mail your stuff for free but before delivering it, unknown parties will read your mail?

Would people have been OK with it?

Also I guess email can be routed directly but doesn't it "bounce" around a bit before it reaches the final server? If so, what if Google is one of those in the middle? Does it read that temporary email too before passing it on?

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Re: Google Says It Continues to Allow Apps to Scan Data From Gmail Accounts
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2018, 05:52:06 pm »
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