[pmoriarty]

"Google stopped scanning Gmail.com users' inboxes in 2017"

Actually, what the Guardian article says is that Google claims that:

"Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalisation after this change."

That doesn't mean they don't scan/read/use the contents of Gmail users' mailboxes completely. It just means they claim they don't do it for ads personalization.

So nothing in that announcement prevents them from doing this for other reasons.

There's also plenty of other juicy data that Google gets on you.. such as who you communicate with and know (gotten through Gmail and many other means), and things they can infer about you, which isn't affected by this announcement at all.

[judge2020]

IMO this is in the context of ad personalization so it's still valid, and it illustrates that they scan email for Workspace as well to provide useful features (like the 'designed to prevent you from threats' point on this marketing page[0])

0: https://workspace.google.com/products/gmail/#:~:text=Designe...