The crimes of the big monopoly companies keep taking my breath, again and again.
But it gets even more incredible: meanwhile they aren't even trying anymore to hide it! They freely admit it, knowing full well they have nothing to fear for it
Governments don't mind their crimes at all, instead they keep inventing new laws to kill even the last freedom and privacy rights of the normal population, all the time claiming they were only 'protecting' us by terrorizing us >-(

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/09/20/google-admits-hundreds-companies-read-gmail-inbox/

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San Francisco 20 September 2018

Google admits it lets hundreds of other companies access your Gmail inbox

Google is allowing hundreds of companies to scan people’s Gmail accounts, read their emails and even share their data with other firms, the company has confirmed.

In a letter to US senators Susan Molinari, Google’s vice president for public policy in the Americas admitted that it lets app developers access the inboxes of millions of users – even though Google itself stopped looking in 2017.

In some cases human employees have manually read thousands of emails in order to help train AI systems which perform the same task.

The disclosure has uncomfortable echoes of last year’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which political consultants covertly harvested data from 87 million Facebook users

What more power is the big G gaining today ??
They already have uncountable numbers of phone accounts, emails, web sites, they guide commerce via their dominance of SEO, and it seems they are actively training AI in order to get living people out of the loop...what's next ??

"G Corp" give us a lot of free space but steal our privacy.
Maybe it is time to change mail service provider or start to encrypt a messages ?

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Siria ... thanks for posting, somehow I missed this Google story. I have read about Google over the years ... nothing is ever really 'deleted' with them. I believe they have built more buildings with servers to store everything for centuries.

I don't know how much of that is fact or fiction. Yes 'free' comes with a price.

I left g-mail after many years in April of this year ... only have the account now for 'nothing important' e-mail ... a daily news e-mail and a few news letters. Only log in every two weeks or so. However, Google probably has all my earlier information stored somewhere, I'm sure.

I opened a free account at Proton Mail last April ... it seems to work for me at this time. They have their servers deep in the Swiss mountains ... however good that might be. They probably don't save everything like Google does long term, but not 100% sure about that.

For the normal people like me, this should work but probably not for a business or an attorney with very private information.

I also have an account with Hushmail ... I don't know if they have a 'free' account anymore. You must log in every 21 days or the account is gone ... you have to pay to get back into your account. It could be a problem if you end up sick or in the hospital for over three weeks and lose track of the days.

I keep it now for mostly 'junk type' e-mail. There are not a lot of good e-mail options around anymore ... unless you just pay for an account I guess.
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