![]() ![]() These features involve AI software reading your emails, tracking your website visits, and your location. For example, Google might tell you about traffic jams or flight delays, put appointments in your calendar, or offer to write quick email replies for you. The problem is that Google has lots of other reasons to read your email, and you may find some of them useful. The good news is that you can delete a lot of it, with the help of a Guardian article by Dylan Curran: Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you. Add Google Search and it already knows so much about you that scanning your emails may well be superfluous. Google has the world’s largest known tracking system, thanks partly to Google Analytics – which is used on far more websites than any Facebook tracker – and its DoubleClick advertising business. As Alex Hern explained here, “the adverts will now be targeted in the same way as other Google services, based on information gleaned from other activity on users’ profiles, such as their searches, browsing activity, and even physical locations”. That didn’t mean you would get adverts picked at random. That changed last summer, when Google announced that it would no longer scan emails to tailor adverts. You could only avoid it by using a paid-for version of the service. When Google launched Gmail in 2004, it did indeed scan your emails for advertising purposes. ![]() ![]() Google’s email service, Gmail, no longer scans the contents of your communications for targeting ads. ![]()
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