Google Says It Doesn't Spy On Leakers

[HardOCP News]

Google says that, despite having the legal right to do so, the company does not access Gmail accounts without permission.

Speaking to Recode in an interview published on Tuesday, Google general counsel Kent Walker said that Arrington's allegations are "serious," adding that while our terms of service might legally permit such access, we have never done this and it's hard for me to imagine circumstances where we would investigate a leak in that way."

 

[HardOCP News]

Well, except for advertising purposes, then they mine the hell out of your account.

 

[CreepyUncleGoogle]

...without permission.

Meaning an automatic opt in and a buried somewhere on an obscure settings page behind an invisible hyperlink opt out.

 

[Technikal]

S c r o o g l e d !

 

[FLECOM]

Well, except for advertising purposes, then they mine the hell out of your account.

well there's a difference between automatic scraping and going in and reading someones email...

and while google claims they would never do it, their engineers already have

http://www.theweek.co.uk/technology/11581/google-worker-fired-stalking-teen-gmail-users

 

[BladeVenom]

So he's accusing them of pulling a Microsoft.