IS: Google Says It Continues to Allow Apps to Scan Data From Gmail Accounts

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com>
> Date: September 21, 2018 at 05:08:47 GMT+9
> To: the Interesting Stuff list <is () iconia com>
> Subject: IS: Google Says It Continues to Allow Apps to Scan Data From Gmail Accounts
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> Google Says It Continues to Allow Apps to Scan Data From Gmail Accounts
> Lawmakers had asked company to explain policy in wake of WSJ report
> By John D. McKinnon and Douglas MacMillan
> Sept. 20, 2018 
> https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-says-it-continues-to-allow-apps-to-scan-data-from-gmail-accounts-1537459989
> EXCERPT:
> WASHINGTON—Google Inc. told lawmakers it continues to allow other companies to scan and share data from Gmail 
> accounts, responding to questions raised on Capitol Hill about privacy and potential misuse of the information 
> contained in users’ emails.
>
> In a letter to senators, a top Google official said the company allows app developers to scan Gmail accounts, even 
> though Google itself stopped the practice for the purpose of ad targeting last year. The company also disclosed that 
> app developers generally are free to share the data with others, as long as Google determines that their privacy 
> policies adequately disclose potential uses.
>
> “Developers may share data with third parties so long as they are transparent with the users about how they are using 
> the data,” Susan Molinari, the company’s vice president for public policy and government affairs for the Americas, 
> wrote in the letter. She added that the company, a unit of Alphabet Inc., makes sure the relevant privacy policy is 
> “easily accessible to users to review before deciding whether to grant access.”
>
> Using software tools provided by Gmail and other email services, outside app developers can access information about 
> what products people buy, where they travel and which friends and colleagues they interact with the most. In some 
> cases, employees at these app companies have read people’s actual emails in order to improve their software 
> algorithms...
>
> [...]
>
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