I agree with you on click-though T&Cs! That's a shitty place to hide what you're doing with customer trust and data. 100% agree there. But it was widely known

I agree with you on click-though T&Cs! That's a shitty place to hide what you're doing with customer trust and data. 100% agree there. But it was widely known and discussed at the time, and included in their policy on day one[0]. It was the plan to make 1GB work. It was their answer when people asked, skeptically, how they could make money giving away such unfathomable storage "for free". And, as far as privacy policies go, that document is well organized and addresses the scanning in the very first section. You don't have to trust my memory of this, but their above-board handling of keyword scanning in emails is not an example that illustrates how they will be evil with surreptitious voice recording on their other products. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20040404134002/http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/privacy.html https://web.archive.org/web/20040404134002/http://gmail.goog...