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Re:Google Accused of Wiretapping in Gmail Scans by Flenser on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @01:05AM (#6480730)
Revenue which pays for the FREE service. If the choice was gmail with ads or no gmail I know which I'd choose.
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Re:Google Accused of Wiretapping in Gmail Scans by dingaling on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @02:52AM (#6481070)
> Revenue which pays for the FREE service

Google also scans e-mails in paid Google Apps accounts.

Edit: correction to myself. Whilst paid Google Apps accounts still show ads and Web Clips, Google now have this statement:

If you are using Google Apps (free edition), email is scanned so we can display contextually relevant advertising in some circumstances.

http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60762

the implication being that the paid accounts are scanned only for virus, spam and Priority Inbox processing.

Sorry, I was wrong.

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