Google admits it lets hundreds of other companies access your Gmail inbox

Laurence Dodds  Margi Murphy, in san francisco

20 SEPTEMBER 2018 • 8:59PM

Google is allowing hundreds of companies to scan people’s Gmail accounts, read their emails and even share their data with other firms, the company has confirmed.

In a letter to US senators Susan Molinari, Google’s vice president for public policy in the Americas admitted that it lets app developers access the inboxes of millions of users – even though Google itself stopped looking in 2017.

In some cases human employees have manually read thousands of emails in order to help train AI systems which perform the same task.

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