Google does not mine your emails.
https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/ensuring-...
Disclosure: I work for google on G Suite, but not on Gmail.
https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/ensuring-...
Disclosure: I work for google on G Suite, but not on Gmail.
This says nothing about email metadata being used in relation to ads or for uses of content unrelated to ads (e.g., generation of search results).
If I hadn't seen the leaked selfish ledger video [1] I would not look for these nuances in the language.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish...
Is spam filtering mining? Is indexing for search (in Gmail) mining? Is sticking flights on your calendar (and nothing else) mining?
Mining sounds nefarious. Are analysis of emails for the consumer still mining? If they are, and any scanning of emails is bad, why use Gmail? To me at least, it's value is the stuff it does for me.
There's nothing in their privacy policy that explicitly states they don't use that info for ad targeting that I can see.
But that's Gsuite, what about consumer Gmail?
"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"[1]
[0]: https://support.google.com/googlecloud/answer/6056650, under "Does Google use my organization’s data in G Suite services or Cloud Platform for advertising purposes?"
[1]: https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-tractio....
I could read that as for only paid Gsuite Gmail, not free Gmail.
As an aside the "what part of..." leader in your reply comes across as rude. The resources you are citing aren't an easy find from within free Gmail. And they aren't in the privacy policy, so what I said remains true.
"Google does not use keywords or messages in your inbox to show you ads. Nobody reads your email in order to show you ads."
Google's privacy policies are written to be understandable by lay-people. Describing the specific breakdowns of what things they aren't doing can be intimidating or scary. So they don't. But the information you care about is still there, unless you're assuming some weird level of linguistic runaround.
Also if Google doesn't need my emails, can you tell me why Google is behind other companies in end-to-end encryption of emails? I'm sure many people would like to have it as a feature (even if it makes searching these emails server side impossible)
I assume this, specifically, is what you're referring to https://schema.org/EmailMessage
[1] https://schema.org/FlightReservation
For example, I remember running across a purchase history page a while back that had saved purchase history data based on email confirmations in gmail. IIRC, it was from specific sellers like Amazon going further back than my gmail history, which I periodically purge. I never wanted/enabled this 'feature' and saw no way to disable or delete the purchase history. Maybe this stopped, maybe it didn't, but this game of whack-a-mole with Google has gotten tedious.
How else does your employer arrive at this aggregated/filtered dataset? Oneiromancy?
[0] https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/google-tracks-your-p...
https://www.cnet.com/news/google-is-tracking-your-purchases-...