<story><title>No, Google, We Did Not Consent to This</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-08/google-privacy-glitch-no-we-did-not-consent-to-this</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianmonk</author><text>From the article:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Google might agree to let a random online shopping company scan what I’m typing into Gmail, but I did not agree.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Google might, in the sense that they could start, but Google doesn&amp;#x27;t do (and never has done) what is described.&lt;p&gt;First of all, Google has never let companies scan what you type. It did let companies target based on content of messages, but that involves advertisers sharing targeting information with Google, not Google sharing email content with advertisers.&lt;p&gt;Second of all, even that stopped last year. From the Google announcement:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;G Suite’s Gmail is already not used as input for ads personalization, and Google has decided to follow suit later this year in our free consumer Gmail service. Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change. This decision brings Gmail ads in line with how we personalize ads for other Google products.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;( &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.google&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;gmail&amp;#x2F;g-suite-gains-traction-in-the-enterprise-g-suites-gmail-and-consumer-gmail-to-more-closely-align&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.google&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;gmail&amp;#x2F;g-suite-gains-traction-in...&lt;/a&gt; )</text></comment>
<story><title>No, Google, We Did Not Consent to This</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-08/google-privacy-glitch-no-we-did-not-consent-to-this</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Meekro</author><text>Countless companies every year hire security auditors, and get back a 100-page report in 8 point font filled with vulnerabilities, many of them marked &amp;quot;severe&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;critical.&amp;quot; Forcing companies to then publicize those reports will be burdensome and counterproductive.</text></comment>