If you think your email is private, think again. If you are one of the millions of Google Gmail users, Google has just released that they are scanning the content of all your messages. This raises huge privacy concerns. Even worse, you have to agree to the new Gmail TOS before you can use their email service.
The truth is people like to use Gmail. This is why the new TOS has frustrated so many. There are a lot of users who feel like they are being cheated from using a valuable form of email. People have a problem with freely sharing all of their information with a company that they feel is going to use the information to sell to other companies that plan to market to them.
On the other hand, at least they are being honest about what they are doing. No doubt other email services are doing exactly the same thing but haven't even informed their customers they are doing so. Google says they are scanning your email to look for spam, malware, and provide you with customized search results. Those are the ads you see when you surf the web that feature products you were just looking at online or stores you have visited.
It would seem that Google hasn't resolved every issue in question involving this matter. People who send email to Gmail users would have no way of knowing that their emails are being scanned by Google, as they do not receive the TOS updates.
Just make sure that you know about the new TOS and that you are aware of what it means. Hopefully they will change soon so that you do not have to worry about this any longer. But either way you should be fine, so you do not have to stress over it.
Google has updated the TOS for Gmail to highlight what is looked for when the automated system scans incoming and outgoing emails, and explains the analysis in depth so that there can be no further confusion. Matt Kallman, a spokesman for Google, says that he hopes that the updated TOS will give users better clarity over how the system works. Google emphasizes that the analysis is automated and that it is used only to provide "personally relevant product features". The data is not stored for any other purpose.
The truth is people like to use Gmail. This is why the new TOS has frustrated so many. There are a lot of users who feel like they are being cheated from using a valuable form of email. People have a problem with freely sharing all of their information with a company that they feel is going to use the information to sell to other companies that plan to market to them.
On the other hand, at least they are being honest about what they are doing. No doubt other email services are doing exactly the same thing but haven't even informed their customers they are doing so. Google says they are scanning your email to look for spam, malware, and provide you with customized search results. Those are the ads you see when you surf the web that feature products you were just looking at online or stores you have visited.
It would seem that Google hasn't resolved every issue in question involving this matter. People who send email to Gmail users would have no way of knowing that their emails are being scanned by Google, as they do not receive the TOS updates.
Just make sure that you know about the new TOS and that you are aware of what it means. Hopefully they will change soon so that you do not have to worry about this any longer. But either way you should be fine, so you do not have to stress over it.
Google has updated the TOS for Gmail to highlight what is looked for when the automated system scans incoming and outgoing emails, and explains the analysis in depth so that there can be no further confusion. Matt Kallman, a spokesman for Google, says that he hopes that the updated TOS will give users better clarity over how the system works. Google emphasizes that the analysis is automated and that it is used only to provide "personally relevant product features". The data is not stored for any other purpose.
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