Amidst controversies with privacy groups over its scanning of user e-mail, PC World reports, “Google has updated its terms of service to reflect that it analyzes user content including e-mails to provide users tailored advertising, customized search results and other features.” The report highlights actions around Google’s practices and quotes the new terms of service, which went into effect Monday, as stating, “Our automated systems analyze your content (including e-mails) to provide you personally relevant product features, such as customized search results, tailored advertising and spam and malware detection. This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received and when it is stored.”
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