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Right in their privacy policy (http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/privacy-policy.html http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/privacy-policy.html): We may col
by jordanlewis 15y ago
Right in their privacy policy (http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/privacy-policy.html http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/privacy-policy.html):
We may collect the following types of information:
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User communications – When you send email or other communications to Google, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services. When you send and receive SMS messages to or from one of our services that provides SMS functionality, we may collect and maintain information associated with those messages, such as the phone number, the wireless carrier associated with the phone number, the content of the message, and the date and time of the transaction. We may use your email address to communicate with you about our services.
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In addition to the above, we may use the information we collect to:
Provide, maintain, protect, and improve our services (including advertising services) and develop new services;
and
Protect the rights or property of Google or our users.
If we use this information in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.
- Bud 15y agoUh, that privacy policy (or at least the snippets you posted) provide NO explicit assurances that Google is not reading your stuff. At all. It tells you what they WILL do. And it says if they decide to "use" (vague) "this information" (vague) in other ways, they'll ask for consent. Does simply reading it count as "using" it? Google doesn't say. I wouldn't trust these assurances at all.
- gojomo 15y agoThe section you've excerpted could be interpreted as saying that Google does reserve the right to have both its software and personnel read your email in order to "[p]rovide, maintain, protect, and improve our services (including advertising services) and develop new services; and Protect the rights or property of Google or our users." Which is, more or less, for any reason whatsoever except those already blatantly illegal (harassment, blackmail, etc.).