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Google reacted Tuesday to a reaction surrounding Gmail, after it was reported that workers at third-party apps might check out individuals’s e-mails.

In an article, Google described how it deals with outdoors software application designers. The search giant likewise stated it vets third-party apps to make certain they “only request relevant data” and “accurately represent themselves.”

The examination stemmed from a report previously today from the Wall Street Journal that “hundreds” of outdoors software application makers might scan your inbox through third-party Gmail apps. (Gmail has more than 1 billion month-to-month active users.) In some cases, designers’ workers had access to countless Gmail users’ e-mails.

One designer, Return Path, a marketing business that uses complimentary e-mail company tools, let its employees check out 8,000 user e-mails 2 years ago to assist establish the business’s software application. Another complimentary app, called Edison Software, which assists users handle their e-mail, let its workers check out countless Gmail messages to train the “Smart Reply” function in its app, the Journal reported.

Google on Tuesday likewise clarified how the business itself utilizes the information. The search giant stated in 2015 it would stop scanning user e-mails for information that assists online marketers target advertisements.

“The practice of automatic processing has caused some to speculate mistakenly that Google ‘reads’ your emails,” the article states. “To be absolutely clear: no one at Google reads your Gmail, except in very specific cases where you ask us to and give consent, or where we need to for security purposes, such as investigating a bug or abuse.”

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