Google: we're reading your emails but it's for your own good

Google has updated its terms of service to explicitly state that it's scanning emails, and explain how it does so.

In a new paragraph inserted into its terms of service Google explains that it sifts through emails to provide users with customised results and advertisements.

"Our automated systems analyze your content (including emails) to provide you personally relevant product features, such as customized search results, tailored advertising, and spam and malware detection," reads the paragraph.

"This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received, and when it is stored."

Checking it out

Google has recently been batting away lawsuits from disgruntled privacy pundits due to not being more explicit about its behaviour.

Its defence is that Gmail users signed the terms of service when making an account, and therefore they've already opted in.

Basically, the message is: suck it up.

• But is a little less privacy worth a little more security?

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