Google Will No Longer Scan Gmail for Ad Targeting<br />Google said it does not scan the email of paying corporate customers of its G Suite of services,<br />but it made the policy change — announced in a company blog post on Friday — on its free consumer version to eliminate confusion and create one uniform policy toward Gmail.<br />Google said it plans to carry out the changes to the Gmail ad policy “later this year.” It will continue to scan Gmail<br />to screen for potential spam or phishing attacks as well as offering suggestions for automated replies to email.<br />The company will continue to serve ads in Gmail, which has more than 1.2 billion users,<br />but it will target those ads based on information it has already gathered from other Google services like search or YouTube, instead of the content of email.
