I pay by letting them dig through my email, calendar and GDocs and resell data advertisers. I have little doubt those impressions of ads hanging in front of my face in GMail all day long earn them 5 bucks a month.

And they don't exactly refrain from mining my personal data once I pay for their service with cash. So, it is little short of outrageous.

I very much doubt they make 5 bucks a month per user. Maybe 5c.

"resell data advertisers."

FYI that's not how google makes money.

Yeah, I know. It's not literally data, it's knowledge about me and ability to target me they sell. Processed data.

Thinking about it, sure, 5 bucks is outrageously much. Didn't give it enough thought, my bad.

Anyway, my major concern is that somehow my data stored with 'enterprise-grade' paid service still gets mined and resold to 3rd-parties. I'm being forced to pay while still it's me that's being the product. Privacy is a hefty enough price to pay for a personal email.

If you are paying for Google Apps, you can disable ads.

But can you disable data mining? Honest question. I don't use them.

My point exactly. Google Apps TOS clearly grants them rights to mine the data.