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I doubt it. That's a pretty big "if".

• Spivak 9y ago
  If they're not using it for ads, there's a good chance that it's in Google's best interest to not know the contents of people's email. It lessens the impact of a potential breach, and it greatly simplifies their responses to gov't requests to 'we have no method to access this data, you must contact the account holder directly'.
  • netheril96 9y ago
    And then Google gets inundated from angry customers who forget their password or key for the encryption of their emails.