Tag: Google: Read people’s Gmails

NOVANEWS Greg Sandoval Google Google promised a year ago to provide more privacy to Gmail users, but The Wall Street Journal reports that hundreds of app makers have access to millions of inboxes belonging to Gmail users. The outside app companies receive access to messages from Gmail users who signed up for things like price-comparison services or automated travel-itinerary planners, according to The Journal. Some of these companies train software to scan the email, while others enable their workers to pore over private messages, the report says. What isn't clear from The Journal's story is whether Google is doing anything differently than Microsoft or other rival email services.  Employees working for hundreds of software developers are reading the private m...