Google has been completely useless in protecting my data and emails.
Google has shared them with governments all over the place, including the US government and the NSA. Some parts obviously willingly, some parts out of negligence.
If Google can’t protect my emails from being read by any government, or being read by any employee or algorithm from Google that wishes to use my data for profiling, advertisements, or any other purpose that isn’t directly required to fulfill the tasks I gave it, then it is not doing what it’s supposed to do.
Also, accusing someone of being a tin foil hat wearer is just making you sound crazy in the post-snowden world.
Snowden has shown us proof that the NSA has had access to all the data from many US companies, including Google.
If you can prove otherwise, please do so – but currently, Google deserves no trust at all.