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Google has, of course, promised to stop reading emails. This was a pledge made by the company after it was realised that the company was using customer data to target ads. Not cool, Google, not cool at all.

So Google has stopped doing that. Except when it does it. To whit, investigating abuse or a bug in the system still means Google staff can read your email. Just like it promised it wasn't and wouldn't and actually was.

Google hat natürlich versprochen, damit aufzuhören, Deine E-Mails mitzulesen. […] Und Google hat damit aufgehört. Ausser natürlich in den Fällen, in denen es das einfach weiter macht…

Den Bericht gibt's hier. Wer nichts bezahlt, ist nicht der Kunde, sondern die Ware.