Scanning email for content to target ads was a public controversy when gmail was introduced to the public in 2004. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/a

Scanning email for content to target ads was a public controversy when gmail was introduced to the public in 2004. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/apr/08/onlinesupplement.google http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/apr/08/onlinesupp... http://epic.org/privacy/gmail/faq.html http://epic.org/privacy/gmail/faq.html