[Jabbles]

Define "read" - you obviously don't mean "process" because that wouldn't make any sense. So you must be talking about something more specific?

[Dylan16807]

The email should be received, filtered, and put into a database with an index. If any information escapes this database, outside of going to the user's email client, then we have a privacy problem with google "reading" the mail.

This definition isn't perfect but it should be enough for to you understand the intent.

[kevin_thibedeau]

You agreed to their use of all data when signing up for your free account with gigabytes of free storage.

[Dylan16807]

Yeah, but we should clearly distinguish it as a price.

[sverige]

It depends on what you mean by "process."

https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-gmail-ads-email...

[Jabbles]

What did you mean? You seemed upset to learn that they were still doing something ("Alas") - what did you mean?

[sverige]

I'm far too jaded to be "upset" or even "disappointed" that, whenever they have a way to do so, Google reads everything that everyone sends to each other. But perhaps it seems perfectly normal and ok to you that a third party reads what should be private communications. Perhaps "private" isn't even a thing for some.

[monochromatic]

Parse and act based on its content.