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Google Updates Terms of Service to Officially Allow it Scan Your Emails

Posted on April 16, 2014July 1, 2025 by Dissent

David Gilbert reports:

Google has officially changed its Terms of Service to make it quite clear that users are consenting to the search giant scanning the content of their emails in order to allow the company deliver more targeted ads and better search results.

While it may now be saying it more openly, this is not a new practice.

Google has been scanning users’ messages for many years, and the company had believed users “explicitly consented” to the practice by agreeing to various versions of the company’s terms of service since 2008.

Read more on International Business Times.

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