Google is Spying on Our E-mails Through GMail

Angela Levin made an amazing discovery when after she left her laptop in a London Taxi. She was a a G-mail user who wondered how Google became so successful offering so much for free. What she discovered should concern all using GMail. She writes:

Like 190 million others, I had signed up for Google’s free service Gmail to write and receive emails.

This was a new development for me, replacing Microsoft Office Outlook, which was largely trouble-free but which I found cumbersome to use away from my home internet connection.
Various friends advised me to switch to Gmail, saying it was easy to use and accessible from anywhere. It was simple to set up an account, and at first I barely noticed the advertisements that pay for the service. There is space for eight adverts down the side of the screen on the Gmail page, plus another across the top.

I was bereft when I lost my laptop and absolutely overjoyed a few days later when the taxi driver emerged from the snowed-in wilds of Essex and returned it to me. I immediately emailed friends with the good news.

But within a second of the email being sent, a column of adverts had appeared down the right hand side of my Gmail screen. The adverts offered me the chance to ‘save hundreds’ on a new PC.
A shiver slid slowly down my spine. The adverts were being specifically targeted at me because of what I had written in a private email to a friend. Though I found the discovery deeply creepy, I carried on using Gmail, noticing all the time that I couldn’t write anything to anyone without Gmail offering me comments, suggestions and temptations.

She was a little upset and a little creeped out by the Gmail platform knowing it knew she was might be looking for a new laptop, so she called Google to find out the truth. The Google rep told her, Google does use the content of your emails for commercial gain. It scans your words and searches for key words in the same way it does when you use the Google search engine.

Perhaps free e-mail has a cost you might not want to pay.