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Gmail Users' Emails Are Being Read By Software Developers

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Google is not protecting Gmail users' inboxes. Business Insider reports that Gmail inboxes can be accessed by outside software developers. The Wall Street Journal confirmed that Gmail users who signed up for "email based services," "shopping price comparisons," and "automated travel-itinerary planners" are at risk of having their private messages read. Hundreds of app developers electronically "scan" inboxes of the people who signed up for some of these programs, and in some cases, employees read the emails. Google has declined to comment. Mikael Berner, CEO of Edison Software, a Gmail developer that offers a mobile app for organizing email, told the Journal that hundreds of Gmail users' emails were read by employees as part of an effort to build a new feature. An executive at another company said that the reading of emails by employees has become "common practice."

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